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popid_2099767920X="<p>The width of a letter and its surrounding space; the space needed to set a line of text in a specific typeface. Some programs have tracking to adjust the typeface to make it set looser or tighter.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1674614942X="<p>A font\'s maximum distance above the baseline.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_60938593="<p>American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A numbering scheme used for identifying printing characters.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1780635977="<p>The imaginary line upon which the letters of a font rest.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1343153496X="<p>Mathematical equations used to describe the shapes of characters in digital fonts. The Bézier curve was named after Pierre Bézier, a French computer scientist who developed the mathematical representation used to describe the curves. Type 1 fonts use cubic Bézier curves, whilst TrueType use a subset of the curves known as quadratic B-splines.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1518352117X="<p>The part of lowercase letters (such as y, p, and q) that descends below the baseline of the other lowercase letters in a font face. In some typefaces, the uppercase J and Q also descend below the baseline.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1000308760X="<p>A family is all the fonts that comprise a group, as in Arial Light, Arial Light Italic, Arial, Arial Italic, Arial Bold and Arial Bold Italic.<\/p>\n\r<p>Some families will also include other weights, like Semi-Bold or Book, and fonts that have been Condensed or Extended, or any combination of these two, weight and aspect ratio.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1807799="<p>A font is a set of printable or displayable text characters in a specific style and size. The type design for a set of fonts is the typeface and variations of this design form the typeface family. Thus, Arial is a typeface family, Arial italic is a typeface, and Arial italic 10-point is a font. In practice, font and typeface are often used without much precision, sometimes interchangeably.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_80935828="<p>In information technology, a glyph (pronounced GLIHF) is a graphic symbol that provides the appearance or form for a character. A glyph can be an alphabetic or numeric font or some other symbol that pictures an encoded character.<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>The following quote is from a document written as background for the Unicode character set standard. An ideal characterization of characters and glyphs and their relationship may be stated as follows: A character conveys distinctions in meaning or sounds. A character has no intrinsic appearance. A glyph conveys distinctions in form. A glyph has no intrinsic meaning. One or more characters may be depicted by one or more glyph representations (instances of an abstract glyph) in a possibly context dependent fashion. Glyph is from a Greek word for \"carving\".<\/p>\n\r"
popid_828062703="<p>A base-16 number system whose numbers are represented by the digits 0 through 9 and the (uppercase or lowercase) letters A (equivalent to decimal 10) through F (equivalent to decimal 15).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_874575415="<p>Hints are instructions built into outline fonts that enable character shapes, especially subtle curves printed at small point sizes and low resolutions, to print as close to the designed character shape as possible. TrueType fonts contain complex hinting information. TrueType fonts can hint each character, different sizes of a character, and rotated text.<\/p>\n\r<p>At its most basic level hinting (or, more accurately, instructing) a font is a method of defining exactly which pixels are turned on in order to create the best possible character bitmap shape at small sizes and low resolutions. Since it is a glyph\'s outline that determines which pixels will constitute a character bitmap at a given size, it is often necessary to modify the outline to create a good bitmap image; in effect modifying the outline until the desired combination of pixels is turned on. A hint is a mathematical instruction added to the font to distort a character\'s outline at particular sizes. Technically, hints result in operations which modify a contours\' scaled control point coordinates before the outline is scan converted.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_584043190X="<p>Kerning is the reducing\/ increasing of the space allocated between two glyphs to make them fit more comfortably.<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>Kerning is the system by which the variable space between letters in a font is defined. A good font will have built into it a table of pairs of characters which have been specially adjusted or kerned so that they look better when used together. Take a look at A and V next to each other in a monospaced font and then look at them in a kerned font. You will see that they are moved closer together to get rid of the unsightly gap in the kerned font. Some programs have automatic kerning features and some fonts don\'t really need kerning because their characters are very square and uniform in shape. Other fonts require a great deal of kerning, and if you turn kerning off in the program in which you are using them they will look awful.<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>The adjustment of horizontal space between individual characters in a line of text. Adjustments in kerning are especially important in large display and headline text lines. Without kerning adjustments, many letter combinations can look awkward. The objective of kerning is to create visually equal spaces between all letters so that the eye can move smoothly along the text.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1337108715X="<p>Combinations of character pairs where the space between them has been modified to improve readability.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_611614207X="<p>The top (imaginary) point of all lowercase characters without ascenders. Also called x-height.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1848939147="<p>Font information such as ascent, descent, leading, character width, and kerning.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1248246987="<p>Like typewritten characters, these all have the same width and take up the same amount of space. Use of this type allows figures to be set in vertical rows without leaving a ragged appearance (as opposed to proportional type).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_306858553="<p>Windows 95 does not fully support Unicode, but has a less universal approach called National Language Support. This allows use of TrueType fonts with more than the usual 256 glyphs of Windows (or Macintosh) extended ASCII. For convenience, and to help preserve compatibility with older programs, the user\'s selected language setting determines which glyphs are accessible from the keyboard (as in, the correct ones for the chosen language, assuming they\'re in the font).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1031022284X="<p>The OpenType font format is an extension of the TrueType font format, allowing support for PostScript font data. OpenType was developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe to produce a hybrid between Type 1 and TrueType fonts, with additional features that works on Macintosh and Windows computers. As part of the deal, Type 1 should receive built-in support in future versions of Windows.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1219395901="<p>An outline font is a software typeface that can generate a scalable range of font sizes. The two most popular outline font software programs on today\'s computers are TrueType and Adobe\'s Type 1.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_2591283="<p>A unit of typographic measurement equal to 0.166 inches or 12 points.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_111464198="<p>Square dots that represent the smallest units displayed on a computer screen. Typical monitors display between 72 and 96 pixels per inch. Characters and graphics are created by turning pixels on or off.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_111913900="<p>A unit of typographic measurement equal to (in electronic typography) 1\/72 inch (0.01383 inches).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1510532167X="<p>The height of the type body. A standard type measurement system was originally developed by the Parisian type founder Piérre Fournier Le Jeune in 1737. In the days of metal type, the point size was the total number of points in the height of metal type, including the ascent and descent of the letters, and the metal above and below the letters (i.e., built-in leading).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1984113029X="<p>The printer language developed by Adobe, and used in professional printing. Broadly, it works by describing the output as a series of geometric shapes, rather than the traditional rows of dots, making it easier to work at higher and different resolutions. Type 1 fonts use the PostScript language. <\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>PostScript predates TrueType by about six years. First, we had many different formats for digital fonts, none of which were standardized. Then Apple adopted Adobe\'s PostScript page description language (PDL) for its Apple LaserWriter printer in 1985.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1005453811X="<p>Type whose character widths vary according to the features of the letters (as opposed to monospaced type).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1993883273X="<p>The process of converting outlines into bitmaps. The outlines are scaled to the desired size and filled by turning on pixels inside the outline.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_706518148="<p>The number of dots in an image\'s screen display or printed output. A monitor\'s resolution refers to the number of pixels per linear inch. Printed resolution refers to dots per linear inch.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_809581500X="<p>The distance between the origin and the left edge of a character (left sidebearing) and the distance between the width line and the right edge of a character (right sidebearing).<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1621612009X="<p>The amount of unused area that exists between characters.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_976166784="<p>A line which may be expanded in width; or the width of the linear elements that compose characters.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_122597321="<p>A visual variation of a basic typeface used to create emphasis. Type style is important since it can attract (or repel) the reader\'s eye. The four basic computer styles are Plain, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_922271397X="<p>Symbol fonts (also known as Dingbats) are used for fonts that include symbols, signs, signatures, pictures, decorations, arrows and bullets.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1363409492X="<p>TrueType is a digital font technology designed by Apple Computer, and now used by both Apple and Microsoft in their operating systems. TrueType fonts offer the highest possible quality on computer screens and printers, and include a range of features which make them easy to use.<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>A TrueType font file contains data, in table format, that comprises an outline font. Rasterizers use combinations of data from the tables contained in the font to render the glyph outlines.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_126396695="<p>Type 1 is a standard outline font (ISO 9541).<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>A Type 1 font is composed of a *.pfm (screen) font file and a *.pfb (printer) font file. Type 1 font files are installed in the Psfonts directory by default, but you can store them in another location using a font manager (e.g., Adobe Type Manager).<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>It is a vector font format. Developed by Adobe using their PostScript printer language, Type 1 fonts are the print industry standard. To use Type 1 fonts on Windows 95\/ 98 and Me, users must install Adobe Type Manager. However, future versions of Windows may have Type 1 support built-in.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_126396697="<p>Also referred to as user-defined fonts, these are non-Adobe encrypted fonts. They will not appear on-screen if you are using ATM.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_799741357X="<p>A specific or unique design of an alphabet. A typeface describes how thick or thin the letters are drawn, the width of the characters, the angle that the characters are facing, the height of the lowercase letters, and how deep the vertical lines drop below the lowercase letters.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_626560176X="<p>Unicode is an international standard for representing a broader character set using two-byte encoding for each letter. This allows the encoding of 65,536 characters instead of 256, essentially all the characters for every language in the world, each with a unique ID.<\/p>\n\r<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r<p>The Unicode Character Standard primarily encodes scripts rather than languages. That is, where more than one language shares a set of symbols that have a historically related derivation, the union of the set of symbols of each such language is unified into a single collection identified as a single script. These collections of symbols (i.e., scripts) then serve as inventories of symbols which are drawn upon to write particular languages. In many cases, a single script may serve to write tens or even hundreds of languages (e.g., the Latin script). In other cases only one language employs a particular script (e.g., Hangul, which is used only for the Korean language). The writing systems for some languages may also make use of more than one script; for example, Japanese traditionally makes use of the Han, Hiragana, and Katakana scripts, and modern Japanese usage commonly mixes in the Latin script as well.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1269165587="<p>The 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-16) is a character encoding form that provides a way to represent a series of abstract characters from Unicode and ISO\/IEC 10646 as a series of 16-bit words suitable for storage or transmission via data networks.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_576940078X="<p>Type of font format, examples include TrueType and Type 1 formats. A vector font describes each letter or symbol as a series of geometric shapes, rather than as rows of dots (like a bitmap font). They can easily be resized without losing quality.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_1512188072="<p>The measurement of a stroke\'s width; or, in general, the heaviness of a character or font. Common names for weights include demibold, light, and bold. Some typeface families have several weights, ranging between ultra-bold and extra-light.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_3144508="<p>The Windows Glyph List defined for Windows 95. This Windows \"WGL4\" character set is a specific \"National Language Support\" set of some 652 characters, which include all the characters for every European language. This means all the usual Latin regular and accented characters, plus Greek, Cyrillic, Turkish, a host of accented characters, and IBM Linedraw thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n\r"
popid_294940432X="<p>The height of lowercase characters in a font excluding ascenders and descenders.<\/p>\n\r"