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| The main part of the letterform that is straight |
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| The portion of the lowercase characters g, j, p, q, and y that projects below the baseline. |
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The orientation of the letterform‘s curved strokes,
from thin to thick. |
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The interior “negative” space of the letter.
A, a, B, b, D, d, e, g, O, o, P, p, Q, q all have closed counters. |
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| The rounded part of the letterform. |
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The part of the lowercase characters b, d, f, h,
k, l, and t that extends above the x-height |
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| The height of the uppercase letters |
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| The imaginary line defining the x-height. |
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| The implied line upon which the characters sit |
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The height of the main body of the lowercase
characters. The letter x is chosen because the letter’s strokes end at — rather than overshoot — this line of measurement. |
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-shortest dash, typically one-third the length of an em dash
-used to break single words into syllables when hyphenation is turned on, to join ordinarily separate words into compound words, or to link the words of a phrase that is used as an adjective.
-does not require spaces on either side, except for suspended hyphens |
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used when hyphenated
adjectives refer to a common basic element and this common element is shown only with the last term — such as upper- and lowercase, two- and fourwheel drive, pre- and post-war, and so on. |
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-(Option+- or Alt+-) is used to indicate duration.
-If you would say “to”
-when you have a compound adjective, one part of which consists of two words or a hyphenated word.
-There is no space around the en dash. |
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-(Shift+Option+- or Shift+Alt+-) is used to separate a parenthetical break in the sentence.
-should not touch the characters that precede or follow them
-You can put a thin space (Cmd/Ctrl+Option/Alt+Shift+M) around em dashes to ensure
-used to set off a phrase.
they remain separate |
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-one-eighth the width of an em space
-nonbreaking (meaning that it prevents the dash from being separated from the words next to it)
-it will not change size in justified text. |
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-indicates omission or rhetorical pause
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| An end mark is a common device in magazines, newsletters, and journals to signify the end of an article, especially when the article spans several pages. |
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as your text gets bigger, the symbols should become
proportionately smaller. |
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| -12 other spacing characters in addition to the word space |
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| -relative unit, equal in width to the size of your type. In 12-point type, an em space is 12 points wide; in 72-point type, it is 72 points. |
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| -An en space (Cmd+Shift+N/Ctrl+Shift+N) is half the width of an em space |
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-Flush spaces work with Justify All Lines alignment only
-Doesnt have to increase word spacing |
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| -is 1/24 the width of an em space. It can be used as an alternative to a thin space. |
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-same width as a word space
-prevents two (or more) words, like a name for example, from being broken across a line |
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| -is one-eighth the width of an em space — a good choice on either side of an em dash or to separate the dots of an ellipsis. |
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-the same width as a figure in the typeface
-can be used to help align numbers in tables. |
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| -A punctuation space is the same width as an exclamation mark, period, or colon in the typeface. |
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an international, cross-platform standard
that assigns numbers to the characters in a font
-offers a character set of up to 65,000 |
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-before unicode
-has a character set of 256 characters.
-The problem with ASCII is that Mac OS and Windows use different encoding schemes |
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-is its own character, more symmetrical
than a lowercase x.
-It’s available in the Symbol font or in OpenType fonts |
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-fleurons, typographic ornaments were historically used to expand the typesetter’s palette
-chapparal pro |
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| -Used sparingly, swash characters can add a flourish to your type. Typically, they are used at the beginning of words or sentences |
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