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