ascender
nounEtymology From ascend + -er.
1
A person or thing that ascends.
2
Media, Publishing, Typography The portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the midline.
- Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about people’s tendencies and repressions (“Artist or Madman?” “Pet or Brute?”). “It's those enormous ascenders, darling,” she said: “I see a lot of ego.”2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
3
Media, Publishing, Typography Uncommon A lowercase letter that has such a portion, such as d or h.
- Related terms
- ascend, ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, ascendant, ascending, ascent