This page gathers the 315 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Typography”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 2 of 3: from “French spacing” to “pearl”.
- French spacing noun The archaic practice (though still current in French) of inserting a space around colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks…
- full out adj Extending across the full width of a page or column, without indentation.
- full point noun full stop, period (British printers' term)
- fullwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.
- geta mark noun The symbol 〓, used as a placeholder in electronic or printed text to indicate the presence of an ideographic character for which no glyph…
- glyph noun A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
- gnaborretni noun The symbol ⸘ (an inverted superimposed exclamation point and question mark), used in place of ¡¿ in Spanish, Galician, and Leonese.
- Gothic adj Synonym of black letter.
- graph noun A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in…
- gravo- prefix grave (accent)
- gravo-acute accent noun A dipping tone, or the diacritic that denotes it, similar in form to the breve (˘) and the háček (ˇ).
- greeking noun Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice…
- grotesque adj Sans serif.
- gutter noun A space between printed columns of text.
- háček noun A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’)…
- hair space noun A piece of metal type used to create the narrowest space.
- halfwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
- handset verb To typeset by hand.
- hanging adj Extending beyond the margins of a page.
- hash noun The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- hat noun The circumflex symbol.
- hatted adj Written with a circumflex ('^'). For example, â.
- hedera noun A fleuron depicting an ivy leaf.
- hintable adj Having support for hinting.
- hinting noun The process of adding hints to a computer-based font in order to align the glyphs to a rasterized grid at specific sizes in a visually…
- hook noun A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- horizontal bar noun The dash symbol (―) (used to introduce quoted text)
- humanist adj Of a typeface: resembling classical handwritten monumental Roman letters rather than the 19th-century grotesque typefaces.
- hungarumlaut noun The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.
- ideographic space noun A space of non-variable width: ⊣ ⊢ equal to the width of an ideograph, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use…
- indent verb To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line…
- indentation noun The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of…
- indention noun An empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph.
- index noun A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- inferior adj Printed in subscript.
- initial noun A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- initial caps noun A casing style similar to title case except that every word invariably begins with a capital letter.
- ink trap noun A sharp recess in an inward corner, present in certain typefaces; when printed, ink fills them (as opposed to having normal corners…
- interpoint noun Synonym of interpunct ⟨·⟩.
- interpunct noun The punctuation mark ⟨·⟩.
- interrogative noun Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
- inverted circumflex noun Any diacritic obtained by rotating a circumflex (ˆ) 180°.
- italic adj Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
- italicize verb To put into italics.
- italics noun Letters in an italic typeface.
- justification noun The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
- justified adj Of text, arranged on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned, with the…
- justifier noun A machine, program or algorithm that justifies text by aligning it.
- justify verb To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.
- kern verb To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text…
- lead noun Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- leading noun Vertical space added between lines; line spacing.
- left-justified adj Of text, laid out so that the left ends of lines are vertically aligned, leaving the right ends unaligned.
- lenticular bracket noun Either of a pair of symbols,【 】, generally used in Chinese and Japanese dictionaries to enclose headwords, and sometimes for other purposes.
- letter case noun The distinction between majuscule (uppercase) and minuscule (lowercase) letters.
- lettermark noun A text-only logo consisting of the initials of a brand name or business.
- letterset noun A sheet of letters or other characters to be applied by dry transfer.
- letterspacing noun The amount of space between adjacent text characters.
- liftout noun A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.
- ligand noun A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.
- ligate verb To connect text characters with a ligature.
- ligature noun A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- ligatured adj Joined in a ligature.
- line break noun A point in writing where text that would normally continue on the same line starts at the beginning of a new line.
- line crash noun A situation where a diacritic above or below a base character extends into the area used by the preceding or following line of text.
- line feed noun On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage…
- lineal adj Sans serif.
- literal noun A misprint (or occasionally a scribal error) that affects a letter.
- logotype noun A single type combining two or more letters (as a ligature or otherwise).
- manicule noun A symbol resembling a hand with the index finger extended, used to draw attention to or indicate something.
- margin noun The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.
- metric-compatible adj Of a font, having identical metrics as another font, enabling it to serve as a substitute for another font without affecting document…
- middle dot noun Synonym of interpunct ⟨·⟩.
- midline noun The level of the top of the x-height of a typeface.
- midpoint noun Synonym of middle dot.
- minion noun The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
- minionette noun A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
- modulation noun The quality of a typeface of having contrasting, thick and thin parts of the strokes; stroke-width variation.
- monocase adj Of a script or typeface: having only one case, making no distinction between upper and lower case.
- mortise verb To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.
- mutton noun Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
- noncapital noun A letter that is not uppercase.
- nonpareil noun A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug…
- nut noun En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- obelisk noun A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient…
- obelus noun A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient…
- oblique noun Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- oblique mark noun Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, sometimes (generally proscribed) inclusive of similar marks such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- optical size noun A form of a font optimized for a certain size. For example, larger sizes lend themselves to more delicate forms that would negatively…
- orientation noun The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- orphan noun A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- orthotic adj Of Greek typography: having an upright form, distinct from the cursive and chancery types.
- overshoot noun The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.
- overstrike noun The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
- oxia noun An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long…
- page noun The type set up for printing a page.
- palatal hook noun = háček (when it takes the form of a prime)
- paragon noun The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point.
- paragraph break noun A place within written content where such an orthographic break occurs; in computing, it is encoded with a hard return, which is sometimes…
- pearl noun The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as 5-point.