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  • 61Dingbat — This article is about the typesetter s ornament. For other uses, see Dingbat (disambiguation). Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges 1880s. Dingbats are not part of the text. A dingbat is an ornament, character or …

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  • 62Widows and orphans — A widowed line: the last line of a paragraph, all alone on the other side of a page break. At the end of the first paragraph, the word lorem is an orphan in the second sense: a very short final line that, because the rest of its line is white,… …

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  • 63Descender — For the cycling term, see Bicycling terminology. For the climbing equipment, see Belay device. The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline. In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below… …

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  • 64Counter (typography) — In typography, a counter or aperture is an area entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter space/the hole of).[1][2] Letters containing closed counters include A, B, D, O, P, Q, R, a, b, d, e, g, o, p, and q. Letters …

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  • 65Pagination — For other uses, see Pagination (disambiguation). Pagination is the process of dividing information (content) into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages. Today the latter are usually simply instances of the former that have been …

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  • 66Bank Gothic — Infobox font name = BankGothic Md BT style = Sans serif classifications = Geometric date = 1930 creator = Morris Fuller Benton foundry = American Type Founders foundries = Bitstream, FontHaus, LinotypeBank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans… …

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  • 67Mean line — In typography, the mean line, also (and more simply) known as midline, is the line that determines where non ascending lowercase letters terminate in a typeface. The distance between the baseline and the mean line is called the x height. Round… …

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  • 68Cicero (typography) — 1 cicero = SI units 4.500×10^−3 m 4.5000 mm US customary / Imperial units 14.76×10^−3 ft 0.17717 in …

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  • 69x-height — In typography, the x height or corpus size refers to the distance between the baseline and the mean line in a typeface. Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term), as well as the u, v, w, and z. (Curved… …

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  • 70Measure (typography) — Measure (or sometimes The Measure ) in typography refers to the width of a block or column of text from the left margin to the right margin. Punctuation should preferably hang outside the measure. It is relative to each design, but can be used as …

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