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Terminology
Font or Typeface
: A set of characters with a consistent style.
Font family
: A set of similar fonts. For example Garamond and Garamond Italic are different fonts from the same
Garamond family.
Justification:
An alternative way of describing text alignment. Left aligned text is sometimes called left justified, or
flush-left, or ragged right. Fully justified text has text aligned or "flush" to both left and right margins.
Kerning
: Moving individual character pairs closer or further apart depending on the shape of the character. Most
good fonts have kerning pair information included so this is automatic, although you can manually kern by
any degree.
Monospaced
: All the individual characters of a monospaced font have the same width. Sometimes referred to a fixed
width fonts. Useful for program listings. Courier is the most common monospaced font. Most fonts are
proportional spaced fonts, meaning the characters vary in width.
Point
: Text or font sizes are traditionally measured in points, abbreviated to pt. 1pt is approximately 1/72nd
inch, so 72pt text is approximately 1inch tall, although different fonts of a given size can vary.
Tracking
: Uniformly increasing or decreasing the spacing between characters.
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