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  2. Type design - Wikipedia

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    The type designer must consider the relationship of the space within a letter form (the counter) and the letter spacing between them. Designing type requires many accommodations for the quirks of human perception, "optical corrections" required to make shapes look right, in ways that diverge from what might seem mathematically right.

  3. Inkscape - Wikipedia

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    Inkscape 0.48.2, showing a rectangle (selected with the select tool), an ellipse, a star and two text objects Inkscape workflow is based around vector objects. Tools allow manipulating primitive vector shapes: simple ones like rectangles, ellipses and arcs, as well as more complex objects like 3D boxes with adjustable perspectives, stars ...

  4. Help:Advanced text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...

  5. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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    As books are most often printed with proportional fonts, cpp of a given font is usually a fractional number. For example, an 11-point font (like Helvetica) may have 2.4 cpp, [5] [6] thus a 5-inch (30-pica) line of a usual octavo-sized (6×8 in) book page would contain around 72 characters (including spaces). [7] [8]

  6. Typography - Wikipedia

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    In typesetting, color is the overall density of the ink on the page, determined mainly by the typeface, but also by the word spacing, leading, and depth of the margins. [44] Text layout, tone, or color of the set text, and the interplay of text with the white space of the page in combination with other graphic elements impart a "feel" or ...

  7. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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    A main vertical stroke is a stem. The letter m has three, the left, middle, and right stems. The central stroke of an s is known as the spine. [6] When the stroke is part of a lowercase [4] and rises above the height of an x (the x height), it is known as an ascender. [7] Letters with ascenders are b d f h k l.

  8. Typographic alignment - Wikipedia

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    Some modern desktop publishing programs, such as Adobe InDesign, evaluate the effects of all the different possible line-break choices on the entire paragraph, to choose the one that creates the least variance from the ideal spacing while justifying the lines (so as to reduce rivers); this also gives the least uneven edge when set with a ragged ...

  9. Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    25A0 25B0 25C0 Symbol Name Symbol Name Symbol Name Last Hex# HTML Hex HTML Hex HTML Hex Dec Picture Dec Picture Dec Picture BLACK SQUARE: BLACK PARALLELOGRAM: : BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE