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Counter The counter is the area of space that is found within a letter, most prominently on ‘o’s. This is also referred to as an aperture.

Terminal

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A terminal is the round ball that is found in serif typefaces, usually on ‘g’s and ‘f ’s.

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Ascender

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Crossbar The crossbar is the horizontal line that intersects an ascender (on a ‘t’) or connects the two ascenders (H).

Stem A stem is a vertial line that isn’t an ascender or descender.

An ascender rises above the x-height of the letter.

Sans Serif Script Roman Blackletter

Open Counter Open counter is a counter with a break in it such as ‘c’, ‘h’ and ‘s’.

Cap height the cap height is the height of a letterform above the baseline.

Woodcut

Grunge


Associated with Modernist design Clean and simple letterforms Examples: Helvetica, Century Gothic, Bebas

Small feet on the end of ascenders and descenders Examples: Baskerville, Times, Garamond, Georgia

Typeface that is most similar to handwriting. Used primarily for Wedding invitations

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Examples: Zapfino, Edwardian, Wisdom.

Modelled from European scribal manuscript Examples: Bembo, Times, Caslon Bodoni, Garamond

Early typeface used in Gutenbergs Bible Examples: Lucida, Fraktur, Kingthings

Typeface carved out of wood and printed using ink Examples: Circus,

Often made by hand. E.g. Sex Pistols artwork Heavily used in Post Modern design by designers such as David Carson Examples: Boycott, Trashed

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