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    Mihail Eryvan
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    This document provides an overview of the anatomy and components of type including: - Body parts such as ascenders, descenders, bowls, and serifs - Common letters, numbers, and special characters - Stylistic variations such as lowercase, uppercase, small caps, and numerals - Ligatures, hyphens, en dashes, em dashes, quotation marks, apostrophes, and ellipses - Concepts of tracking, kerning, and leading which refer to spacing between letters, letter pairs, and lines of text.

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    This document provides an overview of the anatomy and components of type including: - Body parts such as ascenders, descenders, bowls, and serifs - Common letters, numbers, and special characters - Stylistic variations such as lowercase, uppercase, small caps, and numerals - Ligatures, hyphens, en dashes, em dashes, quotation marks, apostrophes, and ellipses - Concepts of tracking, kerning, and leading which refer to spacing between letters, letter pairs, and lines of text.

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    Type Basics 2

    Transféré par

    Mihail Eryvan
    This document provides an overview of the anatomy and components of type including: - Body parts such as ascenders, descenders, bowls, and serifs - Common letters, numbers, and special characters - Stylistic variations such as lowercase, uppercase, small caps, and numerals - Ligatures, hyphens, en dashes, em dashes, quotation marks, apostrophes, and ellipses - Concepts of tracking, kerning, and leading which refer to spacing between letters, letter pairs, and lines of text.

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    Type Basics

    Anatomy of Type

    Body Parts
    ascender

    counter

    cap height

    cross bar

    stem

    descender

    bowl

    x-height
    baseline

    serif

    Letters, Numbers, and Special Characters

    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    lower case

    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    upper case

    abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    small caps

    0123456789

    0123456789

    aligning or titling numerals

    oldstyle or text numerals

    ligatures
    two or more letter-forms joined as a single glyph;
    usually replace consecutive characters sharing
    common components

    hyphen
    short-sighted
    203 668-7581

    en dash
    20072008
    8:301:20

    em dash
    application of soft
    poweruse of diplomacy and economic
    aidover use of force.

    "'

    prime or hatch marks


    (double and single)
    The ceiling is 10'6" high.

    ellipsis

    curly open and close quotes (double and single)


    apostrophe (same as single close quote)
    Dont knock it til youve tried it.

    Tracking, Kerning, and Leading

    These words are tracked


    Tracking or letter spacing is the horizontal space between letters

    Very good kerning


    Kerning is the spacing between individual pairs of letters

    The term leading refers to the strips of


    lead used to separate lines of metal type in
    letterpress printing.
    Leading or line spacing is the vertical space between lines of text

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