Template:Typography terms

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Typography terminology

Column · Canons of page construction · Margin · Page numbering · Pagination · Pull quote · Recto and verso

Lowercase 'a' in Adobe Caslon

Alignment · Justification · Leading · River · Sentence spacing · Widows and orphans

Typeface anatomy	Counter · Diacritics · Dingbat · Glyph · Initial · Kerning · Letter-spacing · Ligature · Subscript and superscript · Swash · Text figures

Capitalization	Letter case · Small caps · CamelCase · Petite caps · All caps

Vertical aspects	Ascender · Descender · Baseline · Cap height · Median · Overshoot · x-height

Classifications

Roman type	Antiqua (Old Style) · Transitional · Didone (Modern) · Serif · Slab serif · Sans-serif · Script

Blackletter type	Textualis · Rotunda · Schwabacher · Fraktur

Gaelic type	Angular · Uncial

Dashes · Hanging punctuation · Hyphenation · Quotation mark · Prime mark

Calligraphy · ETAOIN SHRDLU · Font (Computer font) · Font catalog · Letterpress · Lorem ipsum · Movable type · Pangram · Phototypesetting · Punchcutting · Type design · Typeface · Type foundry · Microtypography

Typographic units

Point · Pica · Cicero · Em · En · Figure space · Thin space · Paren space · Agate · Measure

Digital typography

Font formats · Typesetting software · Character encoding · Rasterization · Hinting

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