A sans serif typeface is a category of font that is lacking “feet” and is more legible for digital reading.
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Point size refers to the size of your type. For example, your standard point or “pt” for a Word document is 12 pt.
An orphan is a word or small portion of a sentence that ends up on its own line at the end of a paragraph. It is best to avoid orphans.
Lowercase is the version of a letter that is smaller than Uppercase. UPPERCASE, lowercase
Lorem Ipsum is a commonly used “dummy copy” that mimics latin and is used as a placeholder for actual copy during the designing process.
Italics are a font variation that slants slightly to the right for emphasis.
This is an example of a font in italics.
Font weight refers to the thickness of a font. Common font weights are thin, regular, and bold.
A font family is a set of fonts with similar design qualities but in various weights or treatments to provide distinguishing yet consistent options to a copywriter or typographer. For example, the Arial typeface has options like regular, regular italic, bold, bold italic, and black (which is thicker than bold).
Fonts are sets of graphic characters with a particular style, kerning, letting, and sizing. Fonts include letters, numbers, punctuation, etc.
Condensed type refers to a font variation within a font family that makes the width of each letter shorter, therefore giving the font an appearance of being taller or “condensed.”