Typography
51Currency (typography) — ¤ Currency sign Punctuation apostrophe ( …
52Index (typography) — ☞ Index Punctuation apostrophe ( ’ …
53Body height (typography) — for the height of a human body, see Human height In typography, the body height refers to the distance between the top of the tallest letterform to the bottom of the lowest one [ [http://typeindex.org/tutorial anatomy.php TypeIndex.org The… …
54Em (typography) — An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the point size of the current font. This unit is not defined in terms of any specific typeface, and thus is the same for all fonts at a given point size. [cite book |title= The… …
55En (typography) — An en is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the height of the font (e.g. in 16 point type it is 8 points). As its name suggests, it is also traditionally the width of a lowercase letter n… …
56Asterism (typography) — For other uses of this term, please refer to Asterism disambiguation page. In typography, an asterism is a rarely used symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle (Unicode|⁂). It is used to call attention to a passage or to separate …
57Spread (typography) — In page layout and typography, a spread (often redundantly called a two page spread) is the unit formed by two adjacent, facing pages in a magazine or other publication, featuring a single image (such as a photograph or piece of artwork) or a… …
58Baseline (typography) — In typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters sit and under which descenders extend. In the example to the right, the letter p has a descender; the other letters sit on the (red) baseline. Most, but not all… …
59Type casting (typography) — Type casting is a technique for casting the individual letters known as sorts used in hot metal typesetting by pouring molten metal into bronze moulds called matrices.Although using matrices was a technique known well before his time, Johann… …
60River (typography) — In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide interword spaces caused by either full text… …
