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services to application programs such as supplying font metrics information
and, for most applications, screen type.
optical alignment Alignment of graphic or type elements by eye instead of
by computer program.
optical kerning Automatic kerning based on a computer analysis of character
shapes rather than on a table of explicit kerning adjustment values for specific
character pairs. Also called algorithmic kerning.
ordinal A typographic shorthand expression, set as a superior, that denotes
degree, quality, or position in a series; for example, 2 and 1.
orphan A fragment of a paragraph only one or two lines long that appears at ...
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