Typeface - The basic form/a family of grouped together of the font, eg Helvetica. The Primary design.
Font - Bold, Italic, ect. The form of the Typeface used, the fonts are the variation of the primary design.
A font is what you use, a typeface is what you see.
Lettering - The lettered used in the exactly forms and way, not as letter but to make up that word and only that word.
Cap-height - The height from the baseline to the top of the uppercase letters
x-height - Height of the lowercase letters not including any ascenders or decenders. (The main body of type is between this and body of the text is what is seen as the type face size, the main height of the letters)
Baseline - The line that is seen as where all the letter rest
Serif - Stroke seen on the main vertical and horizontal stroke of some letterforms
Sans Serif - Without the serif
Bracket - The connection better the stem and the serif, seen only in some fonts
Terminal - The end of a stroke that doesn't have a serif, seen on sans serif fonts
Italic - A slanted type style which come from handwritten text
Descender - The part of the letter that is below the baseline
Ascender - The part of the letter that is above the x-height
Strikethrough - A line through the text
Strikethrough - A line through the text
Counter - The enclosed or partially enclosed circular or curved negative space
Eye - Basically the counter in an e
Bowl - Encloses the counter on a in a D/B/O
Aperture - the partially enclosed rounded negative space in some character
Crossbar - The line in a uppercase A and H
Ear - decorative flourish on the lower case g, seen on serif fonts
Link - connect the bowl to the loop on the lowercase g
Kerning - Adding or Subtracting space between certain letters or character, this is different for each different letters
Tracking - kerning all the letters together with the same kerning
Learning all these names made it easier to identify the parts of the letters i wanted to experiment with, it gave me a way of explaining my ideas of typography in a more professional way. Understanding how the parts of the type come together and can be identified allowed me to gain a greater knowledge into the important parts of the text, think in a more forms way rather than focus on the meaning of the words.
Bowl - Encloses the counter on a in a D/B/O
Aperture - the partially enclosed rounded negative space in some character
Crossbar - The line in a uppercase A and H
Ear - decorative flourish on the lower case g, seen on serif fonts
Link - connect the bowl to the loop on the lowercase g
Kerning - Adding or Subtracting space between certain letters or character, this is different for each different letters
Tracking - kerning all the letters together with the same kerning
Learning all these names made it easier to identify the parts of the letters i wanted to experiment with, it gave me a way of explaining my ideas of typography in a more professional way. Understanding how the parts of the type come together and can be identified allowed me to gain a greater knowledge into the important parts of the text, think in a more forms way rather than focus on the meaning of the words.
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