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In typography, the x-height, or corpus size, is the distance between the baseline and the mean line of lowercase letters in a typeface.Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term), as well as the letters v, w, and z.
Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table, original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.
The terminal (end) of an instroke or outstroke is often a serif or a stroke ending.A seriffed terminal may be described as a wedge, bulbous, teardrop, slab, etc., depending on the design of the type.
Examples of ascenders. In typography and handwriting, an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. ...
Francesco Benenato (18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992), known as Franco Franchi, was an Italian actor, comedian and singer.. He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s.
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The Fahrenheit scale (/ ˈ f æ r ə n h aɪ t, ˈ f ɑː r-/) is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736). [1] ...
Typography Height. In typography, cap height is the height of a capital letter above the baseline for a particular typeface. [1] It specifically is the height of capital letters that are flat—such as H or I—as opposed to round letters such as O, or pointed letters like A, both of which may display overshoot.