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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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italic
; Typography
A slanting or script-like version of a face. The upright faces are often referred to as roman.
justified
; Typography
A block of text that has been spaced so that the text aligns on both the left and right margins. Justified text has a more formal appearance, but may be harder to read.
kerning
; Typography
The adjustment of horizontal space between individual characters in a line of text. Adjustments in kerning are especially important in large display and headline text lines. ...
keyboard layout, keyboard mapping
; Typography
Sometimes known as a character mapping, a keyboard layout or mapping is a table used by a computer operating system to govern which character code is generated when a key or key ...
descender
; Typography
The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase J and Q also ...
dingbats
; Typography
Typefaces that consist of symbol characters such as decorations, arrows and bullets.
display font
; Typography
A font that has been designed to look good at large point sizes, often for use in headlines. Typically such a font is not as readable at smaller sizes for large amounts of text. ...
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