The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type, Second Edition

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bracketed serif A serif that joins the main stroke of a character with a curve

instead of a sharp angle.

brackets Characters used to enclose characters or words in a line of type,

particularly within parentheses: [ ].

broadside A table orientation in which the rows run parallel to the binding,

being rotated 90 degrees from the sense of the other pages such that the left-

most (or stub) column runs along the bottom of the page.

cap height The height of the capital letters within a typeface.

capital line An imaginary line drawn along the tops of the capital letters in a

typeface. As an alignment guide it is used ...