Mark Bowley wrote an interesting post on PSDTuts about the basics of Typography. I think it’s a great read and I think you should take 20 minutes out of your day to read it.
Included in the post are summaries of the following typographical terms:
- Typeface or font?
- Typeface classifications
- Anatomy
- Glyphs
- Kerning and Tracking
- Alignment
- Measure
- Leading
- Ligatures
- Hyphenation
- Hyphens, En-dashes and Em-dashes
- Grids
- Rag
- Widows and Orphans
The article has a few illustrations that clearly explain the jargon used to explain certain typographical elements, such as the anatomy of type shown below.
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