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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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ligature
; Typography
Two or more letters tied together into a single letter. In some typefaces, character combinations such as fi and fl overlap, resulting in an unsightly shape. The fi and fl ...
margin
; Typography
The white spaces around text blocks. Margins typically need to be created on the edges of a page, since most printers can't print to the very edge. White space also makes a ...
font family
; Typography
Also known as family. The collection of faces that were designed together and intended to be used together. For example, the Garamond font family consists of roman and italic ...
glyph
; Typography
The word glyph is used differently in different contexts. In the context of modern computer operating systems, it is often defined as a shape in a font that is used to represent a ...
hanging indent
; Typography
A document style in which the first line of a paragraph is aligned with the left margin, and the remaining lines are all indented an equal amount. This is sometimes referred to as ...
headline
; Typography
The short lines of emphasized text that introduce detail information in the body text that follows. Also the category of faces that are designed to work best in headline text.
family
; Typography
Also known as a font family. A collection of faces that were designed and intended to be used together. For example, the Garamond family consists of roman and italic styles, as ...
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