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Cap height

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In typography, cap height is the height of a capital letter above the baseline for a particular typeface. [1]

6 relations: Baseline (typography), Letter case, Overshoot (typography), Typeface, Typography, X-height.

Baseline (typography)

In European and West Asian typography and penmanship, the baseline is the line upon which most letters "sit" and below which descenders extend.

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Letter case

Letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also uppercase, capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule) and smaller lower case (also lowercase, small letters, or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

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Overshoot (typography)

In typeface design, the overshoot of a round or pointed letter (like O or A) is the degree to which it extends higher or lower than a comparably sized "flat" letter (like X or H), to achieve an optical effect of being the same size; it compensates for inaccuracies in human visual perception.

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Typeface

In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.

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Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.

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X-height

In typography, the x-height or corpus size is the distance between the baseline and the mean line of lower-case letters in a typeface.

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Redirects here:

Cap line, H-height.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_height

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