In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page. The size of...
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selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. The term typography is also applied to...
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means a font where 10 typed characters make up a line one inch long. Point (typography) Pitch (typewriter) Legros, Lucien Alphonse; Grant, John Cameron (1916)...
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rather than identical in number of points.[citation needed] Point (typography) Pica (typography) Typometer The existence of such small bodies was only notional...
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Vigorish point, the commission charged on a gambling bet or loanshark's loan Point (gemstone), 2 milligrams, or one hundredth of a carat Point (typography),...
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In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example: • Item 1 • Item 2 • Item...
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Colon (punctuation) (redirect from Colon (typography))
colon. In modern typography, a colon will be placed outside the closing parenthesis introducing a list. In very early English typography, it could be placed...
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Full stop (redirect from Full stop (typography))
font on typewriters, but in fact that convention replicates much earlier typography—the intent was to provide a clear break between sentences. This spacing...
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stock Pint (Pt.), a unit of volume or capacity Point (typography) (Pt.), a unit of measure used in typography Permian-Triassic extinction event, a mass extinction...
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In typography, the body height or point size refers to the height of the space in which a glyph is defined. Originally, in metal typesetting, the body...
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quadrat) is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size. For example, one em in a 16-point typeface is 16 points. Therefore...
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Cleland, 1923. Example fleuron glyphs from a digital font. Asterism (typography) – Typographic symbol (⁂) Dingbat – Typographic symbol class, a printers'...
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Southward, John (1911). Practical Printing: A Handbook to the Art of Typography. Retrieved 18 March 2023. "Hyphens, En Dashes, Em Dashes". Chicago Manual...
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Dagger (mark) (redirect from Double dagger (typography))
§, and the pilcrow ¶ – some of which were nonexistent in early modern typography. Partly because of this, superscript numerals have increasingly been used...
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In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the...
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com — Fonts. Retrieved 2004-10-27. Advanced Typography with Mac OS X Tiger Text & Fonts Apple's typography developer site TrueType Reference Manual LastResort...
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In typography, an asterism, ⁂, is a typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, which is used for a variety of purposes. The...
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art scaling algorithms Pixel aspect ratio Pixelation Pixelization Point (typography) Glossary of video terms Voxel Foley, J. D.; Van Dam, A. (1982). Fundamentals...
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POP (typeface) (redirect from Point of purchase (typography))
POP (Point of Purchase; Japanese: ポップ体) is a mono-weight typeface for the Japanese kanji writing system. It is similar to both sans-serif and script-based...
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heading for the latter section. They are a concern in the process of typography and pagination, where it may be desirable to have a page break follow...
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definitions; see Point (typography) § History for details. Used in gunmaking. Used in botany. Used in button manufacturing. Used in typography. Used in American...
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Arrow (symbol) (redirect from Arrow (typography))
, and Ebert, P.A., : The Convenience of the Typesetter; Notation and Typography in Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 21...
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Typographical devices such as the asterisk (*) or dagger (†) may also be used to point to notes; the traditional order of these symbols in English is *, †, ‡,...
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In typography, a margin is the area between the main content of a page and the page edges. The margin helps to define where a line of text begins and ends...
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Pink Triangle Services, an LGBT community centre in Ottawa, Canada Point (typography) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th...
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Caret (redirect from Caret (typography))
visual indication of the error location. Caret as used in proofreading and typography Hat operator, a notation used in mathematics and statistics, is sometimes...
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Star (glyph) (redirect from Star (typography))
rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within...
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Vertical bar (redirect from Pipe (typography))
vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer stroke...
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Typeface anatomy (redirect from Spur (typography))
"eXtreme Type Terminology. Part Three: The 'Black Art'". I Love Typography. "Lobe". Typography Deconstructed. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017...
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