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

Add a new term

Contributors in Typography

Become a Contributors

Typography

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 measure the type size.

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 example, the ...