Type Vocab

1. Font: a complete assortment of type of one style and size.
2. Type: the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
3. Serif: a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
4. San-Serif: with out the small lines
5. Italics: designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
6. Stroke: To rub lightly, with or as if with the hand or something held in the hand; caress.
7. Glyph: a pictograph or hieroglyph.
8. Character: the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
9. Script: the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, esp. cursive writing.
10. Ligature: the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
11. Justification: a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
12. Open Type Fonts: fonts are a compact form of Open Type fonts designed by Microsoft for use as embedded fonts on web pages. These files usually use the extension.
13. TrueType Fonts: is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s
14. Post Script: is writing added after the main body of a letter
15. Leading: refers to the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type.
16. Kerning: the process of adjusting letter spacing
17.Tracking: refers to the amount of space between a group of letters to affect density in a line or block of text.