The Character
Terms from the times of hot type
Nowadays, fonts are almost exclusively created and used in DTP-programs, but many terms have their origin in the times of hot metal typesetting.
I would like to explain some of them here:
1 shoulder
2 body, shank
3 groove
4 body height, font size, point size
5 font width
6 nick
7 single letter height (metal type)
8 typeface
1 pre-spacing
2 shoulder
3 post-spacing
4 burin
5 font width