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Counter (typography) The counter of the letter ' p ' shown in red. In typography, a counter is the area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of). [ 1][ 2] The stroke that creates such a space is known as a "bowl". [ 3] Latin letters containing closed counters include A, B, D ...
The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38] A dictionary of orthography. Contains 253,000 entries (253,000 words). [ 44][ 45] Nine volumes of this dictionary were printed in years 1935–1957.
Typeface anatomy describes the graphic elements that make up letters in a typeface. [ 1][ 2] Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller.
Bengaluru Metro (Namma Metro) signage. Kansai International Airport (KIX) (since 2022) The DIN typeface was used for regulatory and warning Signs in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. Also used in the Greek motorway network. The DIN typeface for the Namma Metro is in English and Kannada .
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
Aldhabi [ 1] calligraphic Arabic font by Microsoft. Aisha (Arabic, Latin) Aparajita (Angika, Bhojpuri, Bodo and other Indian languages) Arek (Armenian, Latin) Arial (Used in English, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages) [ 2] Avory (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin) Awami Nastaliq features a more extensive character set than most Nastaliq typefaces ...
Ships, with ship prefixes, classification symbols, pennant numbers, and types in normal font: USS Baltimore (CA-68). Italicize ship names when they appear in the names of classes of ships (the Baltimore-class cruisers). (See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) for more detail on ship and ship class titles.) Aircraft: the Spirit of St. Louis
Total letter count: 189,819. English isn’t always easy ... the full name of titin doesn’t appear in any dictionary—not just because it would take 12 full pages to wrangle the 190,000-odd ...