Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

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leaders

A series of repeated periods, dots, or other little symbols that lead your eye from one column to the next, as in a table of contents.

leading

(pronounced “ledding”) The amount of space between the baseline of one line of text and the next baseline.

legibility

How easy it is to tell one letter from another in any given typeface, which determines how easy it is to read short bursts of type like headlines or signage.

letterspacing

The space from one character to the next.

Also, if you “letterspace” a line or block of text, it implies that you aded extra space, sometimes lots of space, between all the characters to create a certain ...