Typography lexicon

Question	Answer
Lines that form letters. Image: Type+Flashcards. (binary/octet-stream)	STROKES.
The thickness of a stroke. Image: Weight (binary/octet-stream)	WEIGHT.
How dark or light strokes appear in a block of text. Image: Block+Of+Text (binary/octet-stream)	STROKE WEIGHT.
The amount of change caused by the thickness of parts of a letter. Image: Contrast (binary/octet-stream)	STROKE MODULATION.
The modulation of stroke applies a tilt or_____ to letter form. Image: Sloped (binary/octet-stream)	AXIS.
The little wedges on certain typefamilies. Image: Stable (binary/octet-stream)	SERIF.
Letters are closer together. Image: Squeeze. (binary/octet-stream)	CONDENSED.
Letters are more "airy" and spaced out. Image: Stretch (binary/octet-stream)	EXTENDED.
Size relationship of the upper and lower case letters based on the letter ''x'' in lower case.	X-HEIGHT.

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	Created by Tahirintsoa Naharivelo about 3 years ago