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The Non-Designer's Design Book, 4th Edition
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The Non-Designer's Design Book, 4th Edition

by Robin Williams
November 2014
Beginner
240 pages
6h 29m
English
Peachpit Press
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Appendix: Mini-glossary

The baseline is the invisible line on which type sits (see page 186).

Body copy, body text, or sometimes just plain body or text refers to the main block of text that you read, as opposed to headlines, subheads, titles, etc. Body text is usually set between 9- and 12-point type with 20 percent added space between the lines.

A bullet is a little marker, typically used in a list instead of numbers, or between words. This is the standard bullet: •.

A dingbat is a small, ornamental character, like this: Image. You might have the fonts Zapf Dingbats or Wingdings, which are made up of dingbats.

Extended text refers to the body copy ...

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