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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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cap height
Printing & publishing; Typography
The height from the baseline to the top of the uppercase letters in a font. This may or may not be the same as the height of ascenders. Cap height is used in some systems to ...
centered
Printing & publishing; Typography
Text placed at an equal distance from the left and right margins. Headlines are often centered. It is generally not good to mix centered text with flush left or flush right text.
character, character code
; Typography
The word character is used differently in different contexts. In the context of modern computer operating systems, it is often defined as a code with a meaning attached to it. For ...
alignment
Printing & publishing; Typography
The positioning of text within the page margins. Alignment can be flush left, flush right, justified, or centered. Flush left and flush right are sometimes referred to as left ...
ascender
Printing & publishing; Typography
The part of lowercase letters (such as k, b, and d) that ascends above the x-height of the other lowercase letters in a face.
hints
; Typography
The mathematical instructions added to digital fonts to make them sharp at all sizes and on display devices of different resolutions.
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