Describing Types

Typeface/Font Typeface is a particular design of type, while a font is a type in a particular size and weight. In short, a typeface usually gathers many fonts.

capital letters as opposed to small letters (lower case).

Uppercase/CapitalsLower case small letters as opposed to capital letters (upper case).

NumeralsA figure, symbol, or group of figures or symbols denoting a number. Glyph

A hieroglyphic character or symbol.

Adjust the spacing between (characters) in a piece of text to be printed.

Kerning

Dingbat is a term used to describe certain fonts that have shapes and symbols in place of what would normally be letters and numbers.

Dingbat Point Size

JustifiedTracking

Alignment StylesAlignment or range, is the setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column (measure), table cell or tab. The type alignment setting is sometimes referred to as text alignment, text justification or type justification.

In typography, letter-spacing, usually called tracking by typographers, refers to a consistent degree of increase (or sometimes decrease) of space between letters to affect density in a line or block of text.

Justified text is aligned along the left margin and letter and word spacing is adjusted so that the text falls flush with both margins. Text is aligned to either the left nor right margin; there is an even gap on each side of each line.

In general terms, point size is a relative measure of the size of a font.

leadingLeading refers to the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type. The term originated in the days of hand-typesetting, when thin strips of lead were inserted into the forms to increase the vertical distance between lines of type.