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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