Typography

Typography

Typography is the technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. This process includes the selection of font style, size, line length and spacing.

Industry: Printing & publishing

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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.

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 lower-case letters that ...

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 an 8-bit unit of data ...