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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.
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em, em space, em quad
; Typography
A common unit of measurement in typography. Em is traditionally defined as the width of the uppercase M in the current face and point size. It is more properly defined as simply the current point ...
en, en space, en quad
; Typography
A common unit of measurement in typography. En is traditionally defined as the width of the uppercase N in the current face and the current point size. It is more properly defined as half the width ...
face
; Typography
One of the styles of a family of faces. For example, the italic style of the Garamond family is a face.
symbol
; Typography
A category of type in which the characters are special symbols rather than alphanumeric characters.
