Key Terms

Ascender

Baseline

Baseline Shift

Capline

Counter

Descender

Flush Left

Font Family

Gridline

Justification

Kerning

Leading

Legibility

Letterform

Mean Line

Point

Posture

Ragged Right

Readability

Screen Font

Snapping

Text

Tracking

Typeface

Typography

Web-Safe Font

X-Height

Font Styles and Effects

All Caps

Beveled

Boldface

Condensed

Drop Shadow

Embossed

Expanded

Faux Bold/Italic

Italic

Oblique

Small Caps

Strikethrough

Stroke

Subscript

Superscript

Underlined

Typefaces

Blackletter

Decorative

Modern

Old Style

Roman

Sans Serif

Script

Serif

Slab Serif

Symbol

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