Syeda N Ali- Typographic Images- Letters - [A, D, E, F,I,K,L]

Anti-aliasing.

The blurring of a jagged line or edge on a screen or output device to give the appearance of a smooth line. Application program. Computer software used to create and modify documents

Ascender.

Stroke on a lowercase letter that rises above the mean-line. 

Alignment.

Precise arrangement of letterforms upon an imaginary horizontal or vertical line.

Accents.

Small marks over, under, or through a letterform, indicating specific punctuation or changes in stress.

Aspect ratio.

The ratio of an image, screen, or other medium’s height to its width. Images will become distorted if forced into a different aspect ratio during enlargement, reduction, or transfers.

Auto-runaround, Automatic runaround.

A page-layout program feature that flows text smoothly around graphics or headlines placed within the normal text area.

Descender.

Stroke on a lowercase letterform that falls belowthe baseline.

Dazzle.

Visual effect caused by extreme contrast in the strokesof letterforms.

Daisy wheel.

Strike-on printing wheel containing reliefcharacters on spokes, radiating from a central disk. As the wheelspins, a hammer impacts the characters against an inkedribbon.

 Dissonance.

In design, visual tension and contrast between typographic elements

Dithering.

A technique for alternating the value of adjacentdots or pixels to create the effect of an intermediate value. When printing color images or displaying color on a computer screen, dithering refers to the technique of making different colors for adjacent dots or pixels to give the illusion of a third color; for example, a printed field of alternating cyan and yellow dots appears to be green. Dithering gives the effect of shades of gray on a black-and-white display or the effect of more colors on a color display.

Expanded.

Letterforms whose horizontal width has been extended.

Fit.

Refers to the spatial relationships between letters after they are set into words and lines.

Flush left (or right).

The even vertical alignment of lines of type at the left (or right) edge of a column.

Initial.

A large letter used at the beginning of a column; for example, at the beginning of a chapter.

Inferior characters.

Small characters, usually slightly smaller than the x-height, positioned on or below the baseline and used for footnotes or fractions.

Kerning.

In typesetting, kerning refers to the process of subtracting space between specific pairs of characters so that the overall letter spacing appears to be even. Compare Tracking.

Ligature.

A typographic character produced by combining two or more letters.

Latin.

Type style characterized by triangular, pointed serifs.