B
- ball terminal
The round ball at the end of the arm in letters such as a, c, and r. It’s most common in modern typefaces.
- bar
Horizontal crossbar connecting two sides of a letter, as in A or H.
- baseline
The invisible line on which type sits (excluding descenders).
- beak
The serif at the end of an arm, such as in E and L.
- bitmapped font
The part of a font that is created with and displayed on the screen with pixels, as opposed to outlines.
- blackletter
A style of type, also called German Blackletter, Gothic and mistakenly Old English.
- bleed
Any element on a page that is printed over the trimmed edge of the paper.
- body
Sometimes the x-height ...
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