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Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 6th Edition
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Typographic Design: Form and Communication, 6th Edition

by Rob Carter, Philip B. Meggs, Ben Day, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
352 pages
13h 27m
English
Wiley
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GLOSSARY

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@font-face. A cascading style sheet (CSS) rule that allows fonts from a third-party website to be viewed with a user's browser, allowing designers to select fonts that may not be widely available.

ABA form. A design principle of form interrelationships, involving repetition and contrast.

Accents. Small marks over, under, or through a letterform, indicating specific punctuation or changes in stress.

Agate. A vertical unit used to measure space in newspaper columns, originally 5 1/2-point type. Fourteen agate lines equal approximately one inch.

Alignment. Precise arrangement of letterforms upon an imaginary horizontal or vertical line.

Alphabet length. Horizontal measure of the lowercase alphabet in a type font, used to approximate the horizontal measure of type set in that font.

Ampersand. A typographic character (&) representing the word and.

Antialiasing. The blurring of a jagged line or edge on a screen to give the appearance of a smooth line.

App. Abbreviation for mobile application. A self-contained program designed for mobile phones, tablets, and some computers that performs a specific task assigned by its developer.

Application program. Computer software used to create and modify documents.

Ascender. A stroke on a lowercase letter that rises above the meanline.

Aspect ratio. The ratio of an image, screen, or other medium's height to its width. Images will become distorted if forced into a different aspect ratio during enlargement, reduction, or transfers.

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