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Tipográfia

03.29.

Glossary of characters
=> Elements of Typographic Style -> Check it on Teams!
eg.:
-acute (á, é í, ó, ú)
-apostrophe
-asterik
-at @
-braces
-bullet: large version of the midpoint
-colon
-comma
-dashes: - , – , _
-degree: °
-double acute (ő, ű)
-umlaut (ä, ö, ü)
-ellipsis: sign of elision and of rhetorical pause...
-parentheses/brackets ()
-period/full stop/full point
-quotation marks
-semicolon ;
-square brackets []
-swung dash ∼

Lines:
-topline: reached by the ascenders, eg.: b, d, k
-midline: top of letters
-baseline: letters rest on it
-beardline: p, g, q, y
-bicameral
-bleed
-blind
-blind folio
-block quotation: it’s in a new line, no quotation mark needed
-run-in quotation: it’s in the text
-cursive: flowing, like italic
-flush and hung
-font
-italic
-point: size of letters
-resolution (dpi) -> dots per inch
-stem
-textblock
-weight
-word space

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