M
- margin
The white space between the copy on the page and the trimmed edge of the paper.
- mark-up
To take a pen and write typesetting specifications all over the page.
- measure
The width of a column or the length of a line of type.
- metrics
See font metrics.
- modern type
A category of type that has a strong thick-thin contrast in the stroke weights and thin horizontal serifs.
- monospaced
A font whose characters each take up the same amount of space. That is, a period uses the same width space as a capital W.
- monoweight
The strokes of a letterform have very little difference in thickness all the way around.
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