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- pagination
The process of putting pages into consecutive order.
- pair kerning
Using the pairs of kerned characters that a designer has built into a font. See also pair kerns.
- pi font
A typeface with mathematical and scientific characters.
- pica
A typographic measurement of twelve points. Six picas equal one inch.
- pica
On a typewriter, a pica is a generic, monospaced font that has ten characters per inch (as opposed to elite, which has twelve).
- picture font
A font that has little pictures instead of characters. Useful for logos, bullets, decorative borders. The small images on these glossary pages are all picture fonts.
- point
The smallest typographic measurement. In digital typography, there are 72 points per inch, 12 points per pica. Traditionally ...
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