Become a Type Snob in 10 minutes. ๐
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- Typeface Variants or Fonts
- Default Fonts
- Fonts in American Election
- Type Classification
- Notable Type Foundries
- Type Designers
- Timeline
- Often Disliked
- Open-Source Projects
- Superfamilies
- Custom Corporate Typefaces
- Government Organisation typefaces
- Noteworthy Free Fonts
- Fonts on GitHub (but not on google fonts)
- Popular fonts for code
- Free Typeface Catalogues by Foundries
- Aggregators
- Marketplaces
- Web Tools
- Influential Typefaces
- Typography Terms
- Type Anatomy
- Bold
- Italics
- Small Caps (SC)
- Normal/Roman/Medium/Text/Book/Regular
- Condensed / Narrow
- Extended
- Display / Titling
- Rounded
- Outline / Inline
- Shadowed
- Mono / Code
by WEIGHT | by WIDTH |
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Thin/Hairline | Condensed |
Extra/UltraLight | SemiCondensed (SCd) |
Light | Normal/Roman |
Regular/Book | SemiExpanded |
Medium/Text | Expanded/Extended |
Semi/DemiBold | |
Bold | |
Extra/UltraBold | |
Black/Heavy |
Application | Font Name |
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Windows | Segoe UI |
MacOS | San Francisco |
iOS | San Francisco |
Android | Roboto |
MS Office | Aptos, Calibri |
Google Docs | Arial |
TeX | Computer Modern |
Kindle | Bookerly |
Google Play Books | Literata |
In early days Apple licensed fonts from Linotype and Microsoft from Monotype. Linotype and Monotype were the
Apple vs. Microsoft
of its era (i.e. hot metal typesetting days) and they had (metrically) similar fonts.
Apple | Microsoft |
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Linotype | Monotype |
Helvetica | Arial |
Times Roman | Times New Roman |
Courier | Courier New |
Year | Font |
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2000 | Myriad |
2004 | Helvetica Extended |
2008 | Gotham |
2012 | Proxima Nova |
2016 | Poppins |
2020 | Inter |
The common typeface classifications are:
- Serif
- Sans serif
- Monospaced
- Display
- Script
โโโ Classicals [Oldstyle/Antiqua]
โ โโโ Humanist
โ โโโ Garalde [Aldine]
โ โโโ Transitional [Realist]
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โโโ Moderns
โ โโโ Didone
โ โโโ Mechanistic [Slab Serif/Egyptian]
โ โโโ Lineal [Sans-Serif]
โ โ
โ โโโ Grotesque [Gothic]
โ โโโ Neo-grotesque
โ โโโ Geometric
โ โโโ Humanist
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โโโ Calligraphics
โ โโโ Glyphic [incised]
โ โโโ Script [cursive]
โ โโโ Graphic [manual]
โ โโโ Blackletter
โ โโโ Gaelic
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โโโ Non-Latin
- Humanist: Centaur, Adobe Jenson, Trinitรฉ
- Garalde: Garamond, Bembo, Sabon, Minion, Palatino, Caslon, Janson
- Transitional: Baskerville, Times, Joanna, Mrs Eaves, Miller
- Didone: Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Ambroise, Scotch Roman
- Mechanistic: Clarendon, Egyptienne, Rockwell
- Lineal
- Grotesque: Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Knockout
- Neo-grotesque: Univers, Helvetica, DIN, Bell Centennial, Folio, Interstate
- Geometric: Futura, Eurostile, Gotham, Neutraface, Twentieth Century, Kabel, Erbar
- Humanist: Gill Sans, Optima, Johnston, Frutiger, Meta, Myriad
- Glyphic: Copperplate Gothic, Trajan, Lithos
- Script: Mistral, Francesca, Zapfino
- Graphic: Banco and Klang
- Blackletter: Fette Fraktur, Goudy Text, Old English
- Gaelic: Duibhlinn, Uncial
- Monotype
- Linotype
- Ascender Corp
- Bitstream
- FontFont (FF) (fontshop.com)
- Fontsmith
- URW Type Foundry
- Hoefler & Co.
- Berthold
- International Typeface Corporation (ITC)
- Colophon
- Adobe Originals
- American Type Founders (ATF) [Defunct]
- Apple Inc.
- Bauer type foundry
- Blambot
- Dalton Maag
- Dharma Type
- Emigre
- Font Bureau
- Google Design
- Indian Type Foundry (ITF)
- P22 Type Foundry
- Typotheque
- Klim Type Foundry
- JOHANNES GUTENBERG (German)
- CLAUDE GARAMOND (French)
- JOHN BASKERVILLE (British)
- GIAMBATTISTA BODONI (Italian)
- FIRMIN DIDOT (French)
- JOHANN CHRISTIAN BAUER (German) Fette Fraktur
- FREDERIC GOUDY (American) Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley
- EDWARD JOHNSTON (British)
- MORRIS FULLER BENTON (American) Franklin Gothic, Century Schoolbook, News Gothic, Bank Gothic, Hobo
- PAUL RENNER (German) Futura
- OSWALD BRUCE 'OZ' COOPER (American) Cooper Black
- ERIC GILL (British) Gill Sans, Perpetua, Joanna
- STANLEY MORISON (British) Times New Roman (with Victor Lardent), revival of Baskerville
- JAN TSCHICHOLD (Swiss) Sabon, Zeus
- MAX MIEDINGER (Swiss) Helvetica (with Eduard Hoffmann)
- HERMANN ZAPF (German) Optima, Palatino, ITC Zapf Chancery, ITC Zapf Dingbats, Zapfino
- ED BENGUIAT (American) Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic.
- ADRIAN FRUTIGER (Swiss) Univers, Frutiger, Avenir
- MARGARET CALVERT (British) Transport, Rail Alphabet, Motorway, Calvert
- MATTHEW CARTER (British) Georgia, Verdana, Tahoma, Bell Centennial, Skia
- DONALD KNUTH (American) Computer Modern
- ERIK SPIEKERMANN (German) FF Meta, ITC Officina Sans, FF Info
- ROBERT SLIMBACH (American) Minion, Adobe Garamond, Utopia, Garamond Premier
- NEVILLE BRODY (British) FF Blur, Industria, Arcadia
- CAROL TWOMBLY (American) Trajan, Myriad, Adobe Caslon
- ALBERT-JAN POOL (Dutch) FF DIN, DIN 1451
- MARTIN MAJOOR (Dutch) FF Scala (1991) Telefont (1994)
- ZUZANA LICKO (Slovak-born American) Mrs Eaves (based on Baskerville) and Filosofia (based on Bodoni).
- STEVE MATTESON (American) Segoe, Aptos, Droid, Liberation font family, Noto and Open Sans
- JONATHAN HOEFLER (American) Hoefler Text, Requiem, Archer (with Frere-Jones)
- TOBIAS FRERE-JONES (American) Gotham, Interstate, Archer (with Jonathan Hoefler)
โโโ 1440 - Blackletter (Johannes Gutenberg)
โโโ 1470 - Roman Type (Nicolas Jenson)
โโโ 1501 - Italics (Aldus Manutius and Francesco Griffo)
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โโโ 1720 - Old Style (William Caslon)
โโโ 1757 - Transitional (John Baskerville)
โโโ 1784 - Modern (Didot and Bodoni 1791)
โโโ 1803 - Fat Face (Robert Thorne)
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โโโ 1816 - Sans Serif (William Caslon IV)
โโโ 1815 - Slab Serif (Vincent Figgins)
โโโ 1898 - Akzidenz-Grotesk
โโโ 1927 - Futura
โโโ 1957 - Univers, Helvetica
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โโโ 1968 - Bitmap fonts
โโโ 1974 - Vector or Outline fonts
โโโ 1976 - Frutiger
โโโ 1982 - PostScript (Adobe)
โโโ 1991 - TrueType (Apple)
โโโ 1996 - OpenType (Microsoft)
โโโ 1996 - CSS
โโโ 2009 - Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
โโโ 2016 - Variable fonts
โโโ 3200 BC - Handwriting and calligraphy
โโโ 220 AD - Woodblock printing
โโโ 1040 AD (China) - Movable type letterpress printing
โโโ 1450 AD (Europe) - Movable type letterpress printing
โโโ 1800s - Wooden font molds
โโโ 1890s - Continuous casting (Linotype) (Hot metal typesetting)
โโโ 1950s - Phototypesetting (Cold type)
โโโ 1980s to present - Digital typography
There is no such thing as a bad font. There are only bad uses for fonts.
- Algerian
- Bleeding Cowboys
- Brush Script
- Chalkboard
- Comic Sans
- Cooper Black
- Copperplate
- Curlz
- Hobo
- Impact
- Lobster
- Lucida Handwriting
- Papyrus
- Souvenir
- Trajan
- Zapfino
- Bitstream Vera - donated by Matthew Carter, clones of Arial and Charter
- DejaVu fonts - derived from Bitstream Vera (sans-serif) and Bitstream Charter (serif).
- GNU FreeFont - Based on URW++ Nimbus, similar to Times, Helvetica and Courier.
- Liberation Fonts - metrically compatible with Arial, Arial Narrow, Times New Roman and Courier New link
- Linux Libertine - similar to Times and Optima
- Nimbus Core - URW++ clones of Courier, Helvetica and Times
- PT Fonts - by ParaType for the project "Public Types of Russian Federation"
- QT Fonts - 151 fonts by Qualitype
- STIX Fonts project - Scientific and Technical Information Exchange, visually compatible with the Times New Roman family
- The TeX Gyre (TG) Collection of Fonts
- Adventor (ITC Avant Garde Gothic)
- Bonum (ITC Bookman)
- Chorus (ITC Zapf Chancery)
- Cursor (Courier)
- Heros (Helvetica)
- Pagella (Palatino)
- Schola (Century Schoolbook)
- Termes (Times New Roman)
A superfamily is the collective grouping of several explicitly related type familiesโsuch as a serif, sans, and slabโthat all share the same underlying structure to their design.
- Stone by Sumner Stone, comprising Stone Serif, Stone Sans and Stone Informal
- Rotis by Otl Aicher, comprising rotis serif, rotis semi-serif, rotis semi-sans and rotis sans
- Corporate ASE by Kurt Weidemann, comprising Antiqua, Sans and Egyptienne
- Thesis by Lucas de Groot, comprising TheSans, TheSerif, TheMix and TheAntiqua
- FF Meta by Erik Spiekermann, comprising FF Meta, FF Meta Plus, and FF Meta Serif
- Scala by Martin Majoor, comprising FF Scala, FF Scala Sans, FF Scala Jewel, and FF Scala Hands
- Sassoon by Rosemary Sassoon and Adrian William Sassoon, comprising Sans, Sassoon Book, Sassoon Primary, Sassoon Infant and Sassoon Sans Slope
- Computer Modern by Donald E. Knuth for TeX default, comprising cmr (antiqua), cmss (grotesque) and cmtt (monospaced)
- PT Fonts (ParaType Russia) by Alexandra Korolkova et al, comprising PT Serif, PT Sans and PT Mono.
- Liberation by Steve Matteson, comprising Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono
- Droid (Google) by Steve Matteson, comprising Droid Sans, Droid Serif and Droid Sans Mono.
- DIN Next by Akira Kobayashi and Monotype, comprising DIN Next, DIN Next Rounded, DIN Next Slab, and DIN Next Stencil
- Roboto (Google) by Christian Robertson, comprising Roboto, condensed, Roboto Slab and Roboto Mono
- Source (Adobe) by Paul D. Hunt and Frank Grieรhammer, comprising Source Sans Pro, Source Serif Pro and Source Code Pro
- Merriweather by Eben Sorkin, comprising Merriweather and Merriweather Sans
- Noto (Google) comprising Noto Sans, Noto Serif and Noto Mono, an expansion of the Droid family.
- Fira - Sans, mono, and code ligatures
- Alegreya - Serif, sans serif, and samll caps
- Quattrocento + Sans
- IBM Plex by Mike Abbink, comprising IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Sans Condensed, IBM Plex Serif and IBM Plex Mono
- Inria - Serif and sans serif, also swashes.
- Gandhi - Serif and sans
- KP Fonts Serif & KP Sans-Serif
- Bespoke - Sans, serif, slab, and stencil styes
- Airbnb Cereal by Dalton Maag on GitHub
- Amazon Ember for Echo & Bookerly for Kindle by Dalton Maag
- Apple's San Francisco on GitHub
- Atlassian's Charlie Sans by Oh No Type
- Balsamiq Sans Font on GitHub
- BBC Reith by Dalton Maag
- Cal Sans used by cal.com
- Canva Sans by Colophon Foundry.
- Cisco Sans on GitHub
- Dropbox's Sharp Grotesk by Sharp Type
- Duolingo's Feather Bold by Monotype
- Durex's One Night Sans by Colophon Foundry
- eBay's Market Sans
- Goldman Sans
- HackerNoon Font
- HP Simplified by Dalton Maag Ltd
- iA-Fonts on GitHub
- Intel's Clear Sans & One Mono
- Instagram Sans by Colophon
- JetBrains Mono on GitHub
- Meta's Optimistic Font by Dalton Maag and Saffron
- Netflix Sans by Dalton Maag Ltd.
- Nokia Pure by Dalton Maag Ltd replaced Nokia Sans created by Erik Spiekermann.
- PayPal Sans by Klim Type Foundry
- Reddit Sans
- Red Hat fonts on GitHub by MCKL
- Salesforce Sans by Monotype
- SAP's 72 Font family
- Samsung's Sharp Sans by Sharp Type for Galaxy & SamsungOne for One UI.
- Spotify Circular, a geometric sans-serif typeface.
- Supernotes' SN Pro - based on Nunito
- TikTok Sans
- Tripadvisor's Trip Sans by Colophon
- Twilio Sans Mono by Sharp Type
- Twitter's Chirp based on Grilli Type's GT America.
- Uber Move by MCKL
- Ubisoft Sans by Colophon
- Ubuntu Font Family by Dalton Maag
- Vercel's Geist
- Vodafone typeface by Dalton Maag
- Wix Madefor by Dalton Maag
- YouTube Sans with design agency Saffron
- Public Sans by U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
- Canada1500
- Sweden Sans
- Cooper Hewitt from Smithsonian Design Musium on GitHub
- e-Ukraine
- +Jakarta Sans
- Atkinson Hyperlegible by Braille Institute for low vision readers
- B612 - Aeronautical Font by Airbus for cockpit screens
- National Park Typeface
- Adobe's Source Type Family on GitHub
- Mozilla's Fira Type Family on GitHub
- IBM Plex on GitHub
- GitHub's Monaspace superfamily & Mona Sans
- Inter originally built for Figma
- London Underground Dot-Matrix Typeface
- Averia - the average font
- Routed Gothic Font - lettering style found on technical drawings (More links to other fonts)
- Redaction
- Cantarell
- ZXX - Illegible to OCR
- QCMU - to make diagrams of quantum circuits!
- Scunthorpe Sans - censors bad language automatically
- OpenDyslexic - A typeface for Dyslexia
- Shake - A Typeface with Parkinson's
- FE-Schrift - forgery-impeding typeface for licence plates.
- LAIKA โ a dynamic typeface
- Luciole - for visually impaired people
- Universal Sans
- Common Sans A neo-grotesque sans serif font family
- Open Sauce Fonts Creative Sauce's internal type super family.
- Open Runde rounded variant of Inter.
- Young Serif a heavy weight old style serif typeface
- Optician Sans Typeface based on the historical eye charts and optotypes used by opticians world wide.
- Metropolis A modern, geometric typeface.
- Wanted Sans Geometric with a heart, Humanist with a soul
- Techna Sans Sharp, geometric typeface
- Overused Grotesk - classic neo-grotesk Swiss design
- Aspekta - modern sans-serif collection
- basement grotesque
- SORA typeface - neutral sans serif typeface
- Helmet - a neo-grotesque display typeface.
- Iosevka
- JetBrains Mono
- Monaspace
- Input
- Hack
- Berkeley Mono
- Intel One Mono
- Monocraft - Minecraft typeface
- Miracode Sharper Monocraft
- Commit Mono
- Comic Code
- Victor Mono
- MonoLisa
- mononoki
- 0xProto
- Fontshare by Indian Type Foundry. 100 fonts, 59 pairs.
- indestructible type* by Owen Earl. 7 typefaces.
- UNCUT.wtf 150 typefaces.
- Omnibus-Type 28 variable fonts.
- Open Foundry 31 variable fonts.
- The League Of Moveable Type 17 typefaces.
- Free Faces 77 typefaces.
- Collletttivo 12 typefaces.
- Brick 60 typefaces.
- The Velvetyne Type Foundry (VTF)
- Collletttivo 12 typefaces.
- Paratype 12 font families.
- Google Fonts font files on GitHub
- Fontsource 1695 families. NPM packages.
- Online Web Fonts - font files from websites
- Font Meme - Discover fonts used in popular culture.
- FontBolt - Generate your text from pop culture fonts.
- 1001 Free Fonts
- Abstract Fonts 10,000+ fonts.
- BeFonts
- CreativeTacos 3300 fonts
- DaFont 82,320 fonts.
- Dafont Free 14,265 fonts.
- Font.Download 200,000+ Free Fonts
- Font Library 1,366 fonts.
- Fontasy 1105 fonts
- FontCubes
- FontM
- FontPalace
- FontPark
- FontReach 2,700 fonts.
- FontRiver 60,000 fonts.
- Fontsly
- FontSpace
- FontSpring
- FontSquirrel
- FontStruct
- FontZone
- FreebiesBug
- Urban Fonts
- Monotype Fonts
- MyFonts by Monotype
- Adobe Fonts
- Beautiful Web Type 39 typefaces. Pairings, features.
- Identifont - Fonts by appearance, name, similarity, designer or publisher.
- NerdFonts - coding fonts with glyphs / icons patches.
- ProgrammingFonts - test drive 138 programming fonts
- Coding Font - find your favorite coding font
- Dev Fonts - List of fonts for coding
- TypeWar - Identify font game.
- Shape Type - Adjust letter shape game.
- Kern Type - a letter spacing / kerning game.
- Modern Font Stacks System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS
- System Font Stacks
- Wakamai Fondue - What can my font do?
- Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
- Typescale
- Modular Scale
- Archetype - Font pairing and size
- Fontjoy - Font pairing made simple
- FontPair
- WordMark - Compare multiple fonts in a visual grid.
- Typefaceoff for facing off typefaces.
- Font Library - Google fonts by tags
- GooFonts - Google fonts tagged
- BASKERVILLE Designed by John Baskerville, 1757
- BODONI Designed by Giambattista Bodoni, 1790s
- ADOBE CASLON Designed by Carol Twombly, 1990, based on pages printed by William Caslon, 1734-70
- CENTAUR Designed by Bruce Rogers, 1912-14. The italic, by Frederic Warde, is based on the fifteenth-century hand of Ludovico delgi Arrighi.
- CENTURY EXPANDED Designed by Morris Fuller Benton, 1900
- CLARENDON Named for the Clarendon Press, Oxford, who commissioned it in 1845
- HTF DIDOT Designed by Jonathan Hoefler, 1992, inspired by the types of Francois Ambroise Didot, 1784
- FEDRA SANS Designed by Peter Bilak, 2001, who was asked to create a "de-Prostestantized Univers"
- FILOSOFIA Designed by Zuzana Licko, 1996, a revival of the types of Bodoni
- FRUTIGER Designed by Adrian Frutiger, 1976
- FRANKLIN GOTHIC Designed by Morris Fuller Benton, 1904
- FUTURA Designed by Paul Renner, 1927, who sought an "honest expression of technical processes."
- GEORGIA Designed by Matthew Carter, 1996, for display on screen
- GILL SANS Designed by Eric Gill, 1928. It has been described as Britain's Helvetica.
- ADOBE GARAMOND Designed by Robert Slimbach, 1989, based on pages printed by Claude Garamond in the sixteenth century
- GOTHAM Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 2000, inspired by lettering found at Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York City
- HELVETICA Designed by Max Miedinger, 1957
- HOEFLER TEXT Designed by Jonathan Hoefler, c. 1995
- INTERSTATE Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 1993, inspired by U.S. highway signs
- ADOBE JENSON Designed by Robert Slimbach, 1995
- META Designed by Erik Spiekermann, 1991
- MRS EAVES Designed by Zuzana Licko, 1996, inspired by pages printed by John Baskerville
- NEUTRAFACE Designed by Christian Schwartz, House Industries, 2002, based on lettering created by the architect Richard Neutra in the 1940s and 1950s
- NOBEL Designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 1993, based on 1929 types by the Dutch typographer Sjoerd Henrik de Roos. Frere-Jones describes Nobel as "Futura cooked in a dirty pan."
- NEWS GOTHIC Designed by Morris Fuller Benton, 1908
- QUADRAAT Designed by Fred Smeijers, 1992
- SABON Designed by Jan Tschichold, 1966, inspired by the sixteenth-century types of Claude Garamond
- SCALA Designed by Martin Majoor, 1991
- THESIS SERIF Designed by Lucas de Groot, 1994
- TRADE GOTHIC Designed by Jackson Burke, 1948-60, inspired by nineteenth-century grotesques
- UNIVERS Designed by Adrian Frutiger, 1957
- VERDANA Designed by Matthew Carter, 1996, for display on screen
- WALBAUM Designed by Justus Erich Walbaum, 1800
Source: Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
- Grotesk: The common German name for sans serif faces, as opposed to โAntiquaโ which means serif face.
- Antiqua: The common German and Scandinavian names for serif faces, The Scandinavian name is โAntikvaโ.
- Roman: Standard type style or regular weight of an upright typeface
- Diacritics: A diacritic is an ancillary mark or sign added to a letter. Accents are one type of diacritics.
- Dingbats: Decorative symbols and characters that are generally not included in a font or character set, including boxes, bullets, arrows, pointers, and other characters. Often made up into their own font.
- Oldstyle figures: Numbers that have different heights, some aligning to the baseline, some below. Oldstyle figures harmonize well with lowercase letters. Using oldstyle figures helps keep the numbers from standing out too much and disturbing the overall flow of the typography on the page. Oldstyle figures can be proportional or tabular.
- Lining figures (LF): Numbers that rest on the baseline, and are usually the same height as capital letters. Lining figures can be tabular or proportional.
- Font: particular size or style of a typeface, say 10 point regular or 24 point italic.
- Typeface: the specific design of the letters, say Times New Roman or Baskerville.
- Glyph: individual symbols of the typeface, say letter, number, punctuation mark, accented variations, etc.
- Baseline, Cap Line, x-Height
- Tracking is Letter-Spacing.
- Kerning is spacing between two specific letters, eg. LT, VA or To.
- Leading is Line-Spacing.
- Fixed-width is Monospaced.
- Italics is not same as Slanted or Oblique.
- Ink trap An ink trap is an intentional negative space built into the design of charactersโ letterforms to literally trap ink at certain intersections of the strokes, where ink might pool or bleed and create an undesirable emboldening of the text. It is only needed for small point sizes and are usually only found on typefaces designed for printing on newsprint. But in modern typefaces often serve a more stylistic purpose rather than their traditional intent.
- Widows & orphans A widow is the one (or few) words that appears at the top of a new page. An orphan is a single word (or syllable) that sits at the bottom of a paragraph of text.
- Faux, fake, pseudo, or synthesized - When software attempts to emulate an italic style, bold (or other) weight, ordinals, or small caps in lieu of actual font files for those variants.
Examples depend on the typeface, may not be present in this font.
- Aperture: partially enclosed, somewhat rounded negative space (n, c, C, s, S, e)
- Apex: in the capital โAโ.
- Arm: A horizontal or upward, sloping stroke that does not connect. (r, E, F, T, V)
- Ascender: partially enclosed, somewhat rounded negative space (b, d, f, h, k)
- Axis / Stress: An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes is the axis.
- Ball / Teardrop Terminal (โfโ)
- Beak: decorative stroke at the end of the arm (More pronounced serifs of E, F)
- Bowl: The curved part of the character that encloses the circular or curved parts (or counter) (d,b,o,g,D,B)
- Counter: The open or negative space in a fully or partly closed area within a letter. Bowl + Aperture letters.
- Cross Stroke: (f/t)
- Crossbar: horizontal stroke across the middle of uppercase โAโ and โHโ.
- Crotch: (V/W/Y) - where two strokes meet and form an interior angle.
- Descender: Any part in a lowercase letter that extends below the baseline (g, j, p, q, y, etc.)
- Double-storey: A double-storey โaโ or โgโ has two counters.
- Ear: Typically found on the lowercase double storey โgโ, an ear is a finishing stroke usually on the upper right side of the bowl.
- Eye: Enclosed space in a lowercase โeโ.
- Finial / Taper
- Flag: The horizontal stroke at the top of the numeral โ5โ.
- Gadzook: An embellishment that connects the letters in a ligature but is not originally part of either letter.
- Hook: of โfโ,โJโ and โjโ.
- Leg: (โKโ, โkโ and โRโ)
- Ligature: (โfiโ, โflโ, โffโ, โfflโ)
- Loop/Lobe: In some double-storey โgโ
- Neck / Link: The link connecting the top and bottom bowls of some lowercase โgโ.
- Overshoot is the part of a letterform that extends above or below the vertical dimensions of flatter glyphs.
- Shoulder: arm that is connected on both ends (โhโ, โmโ, โnโ)
- Spine: The main curve in โSโ and โsโ.
- Spur: Small protruding part on uppercase โGโ.
- Stem
- Swash: An elegant extension on a letter form, either a modification of an existing part or an added-on part.
- Tail: of an uppercase โQโ.
- Tittle: The dot on the โiโ and the โjโ.
- Vertex: The point at the bottom (or top) of a character where two strokes meet, for example the โvโ, โVโ, โwโ, โWโ etc.