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2. Adobe Glyph List - Wikipedia

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   The Adobe Glyph List (AGL) is a mapping of 4,281 glyph names to one or more Unicode characters.Its purpose is to provide an implementation guideline for consumers of fonts (mainly software applications); it lists a variety of standard names that are given to glyphs that correspond to certain Unicode character sequences.

3. List of serif typefaces - Wikipedia

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   Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style : Albertus Designer: Berthold Wolpe Class: Glyphic : Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style : Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Geometric: American Typewriter Designer: Joel Kaden & Tony Stan Class: Old style ...

4. Eye chart - Wikipedia

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   An eye chart is a chart used to measure visual acuity comprising lines of optotypes in ranges of sizes. Optotypes are the letters or symbols shown on an eye chart. [ 1 ] Eye charts are often used by health care professionals, such as optometrists , physicians and nurses , to screen persons for vision impairment .

5. Sloan letters - Wikipedia

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   Sloan letters, designed by Louise Sloan in 1959, are a set of optotypes used to test visual acuity generally used in Snellen charts and logMAR charts. This set of optotypes consists of ten specially formed "letters", C, D, H, K, N, O, R, S, V and Z. [ 1 ] These letters, unlike the ones used in older Snellen charts, are designed to give acuity ...

6. Typeface anatomy - Wikipedia

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   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. A stroke which drops below the baseline is a descender. [7]

7. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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   Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry. As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies" [ 1 ] —acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their principal early uses. [ 2 ]

8. Typeface - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.

9. Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format - Wikipedia

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   This is an example font containing one glyph, for ASCII capital “A”. This glyph is taken from the GNU Unifont.. STARTFONT 2.1 FONT -gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 SIZE 16 75 75 FONTBOUNDINGBOX 16 16 0 -2 STARTPROPERTIES 2 FONT_ASCENT 14 FONT_DESCENT 2 ENDPROPERTIES CHARS 1 STARTCHAR U+0041 ENCODING 65 SWIDTH 500 0 DWIDTH 8 0 BBX 8 16 0 -2 BITMAP 00 00 00 00 18 24 ...