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X-height

Index 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. [1]

35 relations: Ascender (typography), Baseline (typography), Body height (typography), Brandon Grotesque, Cap height, Cascading Style Sheets, Cochin (typeface), Computing, Descender, Display typeface, Em (typography), En (typography), Firefox, Font, Garamond, Helvetica, Impact (typeface), International Typeface Corporation, Internet Explorer, ITC Avant Garde, Koch-Antiqua, LaTeX, Letter case, Mean line, Mrs Eaves, Neutraface, Overshoot (typography), Pixel, Script typeface, Small caps, Typeface, Typographic unit, Typography, Web browser, Web page.

Ascender (typography)

In typography, an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font.

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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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Body height (typography)

In digital typography, the body height refers to the distance between the top of the tallest letterform to the bottom of the lowest one.

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Brandon Grotesque

Brandon Grotesque is a sans-serif typeface designed by Hannes von Döhren of HVD Fonts during 2009 and 2010.

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Cap height

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

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Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML.

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Cochin (typeface)

Cochin is a serif typeface.

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Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

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Descender

In typography, a descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.

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Display typeface

A display typeface is a typeface that is intended for use at large sizes for headings, rather than for extended passages of body text.

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Em (typography)

An em is a unit in the field of typography, equal to the currently specified point size.

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En (typography)

An en is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em.

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Firefox

Mozilla Firefox (or simply Firefox) is a free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation.

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Font

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.

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Garamond

Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond (generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime).

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Helvetica

Helvetica or Neue Haas Grotesk is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.

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Impact (typeface)

Impact is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965 and released by the Stephenson Blake foundry of Sheffield.

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International Typeface Corporation

The International Typeface Corporation (ITC) was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler.

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Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

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ITC Avant Garde

ITC Avant Garde Gothic is a font family based on the logo font used in the Avant Garde magazine.

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Koch-Antiqua

Koch-Antiqua is a serif typeface intended for decorative and display use, designed by Rudolf Koch and published by his employer the Klingspor Type Foundry from 1922 onwards.

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LaTeX

LaTeX (or; a shortening of Lamport TeX) is a document preparation system.

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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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Mean line

In typography, the mean line, also called the midline, is half the distance from the baseline to the cap height.

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Mrs Eaves

Mrs Eaves is a transitional serif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996.

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Neutraface

Neutraface is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Christian Schwartz for House Industries, an American digital type foundry.

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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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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, dots, or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.

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Script typeface

Script typefaces are based upon the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting.

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Small caps

In typography, small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are lowercase characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters ("capitals") but reduced in height and weight, close to the surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures, for example:.

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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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Typographic unit

Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting.

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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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Web browser

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web.

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Web page

A web page (also written as webpage) is a document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and web browsers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height

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