GLOSSARY
alignment The horizontal and vertical positioning of visual elements within the compositional space. It also refers to paragraph settings, including flush left, flush right, centered, and justified.
ascender The stroke of a lowercase letter that rises above the meanline.
baseline The horizontal line on which letters sit.
cap height The height of the capital letters measured from the baseline to capline.
capline The horizontal line along the top of the uppercase letters.
centered A paragraph setting in which text is ragged along the right and left edges.
character A mark, symbol, or sign, including letterforms and numbers, in language systems.
color In typographic terms, color refers to the density of typographic ...
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