Typography terms

Updated: 03/10/2024 by Computer Hope

Typography terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 170 terms like acute, block letter, ASCII, and word. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'F' to find terms like 'font' in the 'F' section.

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Uppercase wording example

Special characters
Block letter
ASCII
Acute
Tab
Word processing
Font size
Uppercase
Formatted text
Font

Number

Currently, no listings.

A
Example of letter e with and without anti-aliasing

Accent mark
Acute
Adobe PageMaker
Alignment
Alphabet
Alphabetic
Alphanumeric
Ampersand
Anti-aliasing
Ascender
ASCII
ASCII art
Asterisk
AT
AT symbol

B
Bezier curve with two control points and two endpoints

Background
Back quote
Backslash
Basefont
Baseline
BDF
Bézier curve
Bitmap font
BIU
Block indent
Block letter
Block of text
Blur
Body type
Bold
Bracket
Bullet

C
Characters per inch, abbreviated as CPI

CamelCase
Cap
Caret
Case
Case-sensitive
Center
Character
Character code
Character map
Characters Per Inch
ClearType
Colon
Comma
CPI
Curly bracket
Curly quotes

D

Default font
Degree
Derived font
Descender
Desktop publishing
Digit
Dingbat
Display face
Dollar sign
Downloadable font
Drop cap

E

EBCDIC
Editor
Elite
EM
Emboss
Em dash
Em space
En dash
End mark
En space
Equal
ETAOIN SHRDLU
Exclamation mark

F

First-line indent
Font
Font conversion
Font editor
Font face
Font family
Font scaling
Font size
Font style
Foreground
Formatted text
Forward slash

G

Glow
Gradient
Graphic character
Grave
Grave accent
Greater than
Greeking
Gutter

H

Hanging indent
Hyphen
Hyphenation

I

Indent
Internal font
Italic
ITC

J

Justify

K

Kern

L
Lorem ipsum

Leading
Left align
Left quote
Less than
Letter
Letterform
Letterhead
Lettering
Ligature
LLM
Lorem ipsum
Lowercase

M

Margin
Markdown
Markup
Markup language
Monospace
Monospacing

N

Near typeset-quality
Non-printing character

O

Oblique
Obliquing angle
Octothorpe
Open quote
Outline
Outline font
Overstrike

P
Explanation of a pull quote and a pull quote example.

Pangram
Parenthesis
Percent
Period
Phototypesetter
Pica
Pipe
Pixel
Placeholder text
Plus
Point
Proper case
Proportional spacing
Pull quote
Punctuation
Push

Q

Question mark
Quote

R

Regular
Right align
Roman
Roman numerals

S
Sans Serif font

Sans-serif
Scalable font
Screaming snake case
Screen font
Script font
Semicolon
Serif
Shadow
Single quote
Slash
Snake case
Special character
Strikethrough
Stroke
Stroke weight
Subscript
Superscript
Symbol
Symbol font
System font

T
Example Text words in blue letters

Tab
Tab character
Text
Text editor
Text effects
Tilde
Title case
ToggleCase
TrueType
Type
Type 1 font
Typeface
Typeset
Type size
Type style
Typographer
Typography

U

UDF
Underline
Underscore
Uppercase

V

Veronica

W

Weight
Whack
White space
Wingdings
Word
WordArt
Word processing

X

X-height

Y

Currently, no listings.

Z

Zapf Dingbat

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