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Printing & publishing
The industry concerned with the preparation and distribution of printed material to the general public.
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unjustified
; Typography
Depending on alignment, this term refers to text which is set flush left, flush right, or centered.
weight
; Typography
The relative darkness of the characters in the various typefaces within a type family. Weight is indicated by relative terms such as thin, light, bold, extra-bold, and black.
white space
; Typography
The blank areas on a page where text and illustrations are not printed. White space should be considered an important graphic element in page design.
width
; Typography
One of the possible variations of a typeface within a type family, such as condensed or extended.
word spacing
; Typography
Adjusting the average distance between words to improve legibility or to fit a block of text into a given amount of space.
x-height
; Typography
Traditionally, x-height is the height of the lowercase letter x. It is also the height of the body of lowercase letters in a font, excluding the ascenders and descenders. Some ...
character encoding
Printing & publishing; Typography
Character encoding is a table in a font or a computer operating system that maps character codes to glyphs in a font. Most operating systems today represent character codes with ...
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