Typography terms

Typography terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 170 terms like acute, block letter, ASCII, and word. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'F' to find terms like 'font' in the 'F' section.

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Top 10 typography terms
Special characters Block letter ASCII Acute Tab Word processing Font size Uppercase Formatted text Font
Number
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A
Accent mark Acute Adobe PageMaker Alignment Alphabet Alphabetic Alphanumeric Ampersand Anti-aliasing Arial Ascender ASCII ASCII art Asterisk AT AT symbol
B
Background Back quote Backslash Basefont Baseline BDF Bézier curve Bitmap font BIU Block indent Block letter Block of text Blur Body type Bold Bracket Bullet
C
CamelCase Cap Caret Case Case-sensitive Center Character Character code Character map Characters Per Inch ClearType Colon Comma CPI Curly bracket Curly quotes
D
Default font Degree Derived font Descender Desktop publishing Digit Dingbat Display face Dollar sign Downloadable font Drop cap
E
EBCDIC Editor Elite EM Emboss Em dash Em space En dash End mark En space Equal ETAOIN SHRDLU Exclamation mark
F
First-line indent Font Font conversion Font editor Font face Font family Font scaling Font size Font style Foreground Formatted text Forward slash
G
Glow Gradient Graphic character Grave Grave accent Greater than Greeking Gutter
H
Hanging indent Hyphen Hyphenation
I
Indent Internal font Italic ITC
J
Justify
K
Kern
L
Leading Left align Left quote Less than Letter Letterform Letterhead Lettering Ligature LLM Lorem ipsum Lowercase
M
Margin Markdown Markup Markup language Monospace Monospacing
N
Near typeset-quality Non-printing character
O
Oblique Obliquing angle Octothorpe Open quote Outline Outline font Overstrike
P
Pangram Parenthesis Percent Period Phototypesetter Pica Pipe Pixel Placeholder text Plus Point Proper case Proportional spacing Pull quote Punctuation Push
Q
Question mark Quote
R
Regular Right align Roman Roman numerals
S
Sans-serif Scalable font Screaming snake case Screen font Script font Semicolon Serif Shadow Single quote Slash Snake case Special character Strike Strikethrough Stroke Stroke weight Subscript Superscript Symbol Symbol font System font
T
Tab Tab character Text Text editor Text effects Tilde Title case ToggleCase TrueType Type Type 1 font Typeface Typeset Type size Type style Typographer Typography
U
UDF Underline Underscore Uppercase
V
Veronica
W
Weight Whack White space Wingdings Word WordArt Word processing
X
X-height
Y
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Z
Zapf Dingbat

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