Typography is the art and techniques of typesetting, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.... , an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter
Grapheme
In typography, a grapheme is the fundamental unit in writing systems. Graphemes include letter , Chinese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.... in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line
Mean line
In typography, the mean line, also known as midline, is the line that determines where non-ascender Lower case letter terminate in a typeface.... of a font
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more fonts, in one or more sizes, designed with stylistic unity, each comprising a coordinated set of glyphs.... . That is, the part of a lower-case letter that is taller than the font's x-height
X-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 , as well as the u, v, w, and z.... .
Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. For this reason, British highway road signs that must be read quickly no longer use all capital letters
Capital letters
Capital letters or majuscules [IPA pronunciation: /m?'d??skjuls, 'm?d???skjuls/], in the Roman alphabet A, B, C, D, etc., may also be called capitals, or caps.... .
