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a basic, minimal, readable structure used to identify a letter, figure, punctuation mark, or symbol that serves as a component of written language
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Character
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a stylized visual representation of a character or combination of characters
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Glyph
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a set of letters or other characters with which one or more languages are written
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Alphabet
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the distinctive, visually unifying design of an alphabet and its accompanying punctuation marks and numbers
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Typeface
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all stylistic variations of a single typeface, including light, medium, bold, extra bold, and italic
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Type Family
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the whole set of type needed to produce the letters, numbers, and punctuation marks of one size of typeface
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Font
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vertical space between lines within and between paragraphs
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Leading
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digital fonts are structured in two different forms
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bitmapped fonts and outlined fonts
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defines letters as groups of dots arranged on a grid with x,y coordinates, also known as raster images
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bitmapped font, also known as screen font
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defines letters as objects, also known as vector objects
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outline font, also known as printer font or scalable font
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introduced in 1984 by Adobe Systems, these are outline fonts
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Postscript Type 1 fonts (PST-1)
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the more abundant control points....
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the rougher the edge of the letter
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introduced in 1991 and developed by Apple, these are outline fonts designed to bring scalable type technology to all users
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TrueType Fonts (TT)
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introduced in 1997, and developed by both Microsoft and Adobe, this is a cross-platform, multilingual, compressed font format
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OpenType Fonts (OT)
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