Typography

Ligature

Apex or vertex

Stress

Ear

Tail

Bowl

Barb

crotch

Terminal

Baseline / Font Size / Mean Line / Ascent Line / Descent Line / X-Height / Cap Line

This person (c. 1510–1561), was a French type designer, publisher, and punch-cutter based in Paris.

This person (1692–1766) was an English typefounder. The distinction and legibility of his type secured him the patronage of the leading printers of the day in England and on the continent.

This person (1834–1896) was a British designer
of textiles and books, a poet, novelist, and socialist. As a founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional printing and book arts.

This person (born 1927) is an American typographer and lettering artist. He has crafted over 600 type-
face designs including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Souvenir, Edwardian Script, and two eponymous designs.

This person (1740–1813) was an Italian typographer, type designer, compositor, printer and publisher in Parma. He first took the typeface designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars but afterward became an admirer of John Baskerville's work.

This person (born 1961) is a Slovak-born American type designer known for co-founding the graphic design magazine Emigre and for creating numerous typefaces, including Mrs. Eaves.

This person (born 1937) is a British type designer currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This person (1902–1974) was a Swiss calligrapher, typographer and book designer.

This person (born 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type of design.

On dark evenings in late 1916, a frail 76-year-old type designer and printer could often be seen shuffling furtively between The Dove, a pub in west London, and the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames.

What do we call a sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet (e.g., The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog)?

Many designers mistakenly believe that Johannes Gutenberg invented the first movable type for printing. But
in fact, the Chinese scholar Pi Sheng invented his own version of a movable type far earlier (1045 ce), a notable improvement over the technology
of woodblock printing in which the
wood around each calligraphic character is painstakingly removed by hand. Nevertheless, movable type didn't immediately become popular in China. Why?

This category of typeface, which emerged in the early 1800s (courtesy of William Caslon IV) was at first considered so barbaric-looking and strange that it was referred to as Grotesque in Europe and Gothic in the United States.

In March 2014, a teenager claimed the US government could save $394 million per year by switching from Times New Roman to which thinner typeface design pictured above (requiring less ink)?

Released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation, which typeface was described by its creator, Vincent Connare, as the best joke I ever told?

Ancient Roman letterforms (as in this stone inscription) did not originally have a corresponding set of lowercase letters; those developed later in the Middle Ages, with the introduction of smaller handwritten characters. These new letterforms were used by monks transcribing Biblical manuscripts. The
more compact characters were easier to write and used less parchment. They were called...

The Phoenicians (inventors of the alphabet) didn't simply write from left-to-right; instead, they wrote one line from left-to-right, then reversed direction and wrote the next line from right-to-left. The Greeks called this method of zigzag writing in alternate directions a word which literally means
as the ox plows the field...