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- decorative face
A typeface designed for a distinctive, ornate, or otherwise graphic look.
- descender
The part of a letter that extends below the baseline.
- desktop publishing (dtp)
The use of the personal computer to create (publish) pages that contain text and graphics.
- didot
A unit of measure similar to a point. Twelve didot points make one cicero, similar to a pica.
- dingbats
Decorative elements such as symbols, icons, or ornaments. These may be entire fonts or individual glyphs contained within a font. Zapf Dingbats and Wingdings are well-known examples.
- discretionary hyphen (dischy)
A hyphen you can type in your software that disappears when it’s not needed.
- display type
Type over the size of 14 point, as in headlines or advertising ...
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