All of the following terms describe parts of a font that give the eye visual clues to decoding the letters while reading. Many of these terms stem from a time when type was hand-written using wedge-tipped pens.

 Refers to the height of the lowercase letters.

 Imaginary horizontal line on which characters rest.

 Distance between the baseline and top of the capital letters.

Parts of the letters that extend above the x-height.

Parts of fonts that extend below the baseline.

 Is the thickness of line in the font.

 The number of characters that can be printed in one horizontal inch.

 Point Size: l/72 of an inch. 72 points are equal to one inch

Are the flares at the end of the letters

 Examples of Serif Fonts  Times New Roman  Garamond

 Without small strokes at the end of characters.  Examples of Sans Serif Fonts:  Arial  Tahoma  Antique Olive

 A set of characters with a common design and shape.  Such as Impact, Times New Roman, Arial

 4 categories of styles  Normal (regular, roman)  Bold  Italic  Bold italic

 Decorative first letter of paragraph or sentence used to draw the reader’s eye.  Usually used in a newsletter or article at the beginning of text.

 Which refers to the horizontal spacing between letters or characters.

 Refers to the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type. In consumer-oriented word processing software, this concept is usually referred to as "line spacing".

6 Categories into which most type can be placed.

1. fonts with serifs.  The serifs are always slanted on lowercase letters.  These fonts make good body text.  They are easy to read and hard to distinguish from each other.  Example: Goudy Old Style, Centaur

 Fonts have serifs that are thin & flat on lowercase letters.  These fonts are very good for headlines.  Example is Bodoni

 fonts have little or no thick/thin transition at all.  Called Monoweight fonts.  Serifs are thick & horizontal  These fonts are dark and extremely easy to read.  Used for body text.  Example: toxica

 Monoweight fonts  The word “sans” means without.  Fonts without serifs.  Example: Delicious, Franklin Gothic, Arial, Trebuchet MS

 Fonts appear to have been hand written.  Usually used to add style to a design.  Not for body text.

 Fonts are ornamentals.  Never used as body text.  Often include symbols or flairs  Use them carefully.