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Runaround: Text is wrapped around a picture.

Leading is the distance between two baselines on consecutive lines of text.

Descender Line: This line denotes the lowest point of the letter form.

A widow is a lone word at the end of a block of text.

em of a 10 point type = 10 points

Cap height: The height of capital letters or the distance between baseline and cap
line.

Justified: Each line extends from left to right margins varying space between
words.

The orientation of a curved character is called as - Leg (wrong)

X-height is the distance between the baseline and mean line.

Vertex: It is the angle formed at the base of a letter when strokes meet.

Light is a variation of the Roman style with a lighter stroke.

Extended is a wider version of the Roman style.

Alignment: It is the horizontal position of type.

A typeface without serifs is called sans-serif or sans serif,

Helvetica is a serif font. - False

Different typefaces with the same point size can have different x-heights - True

An orphan is the final one or two lines of a paragraph that breaks to form a new
column.

Kerning is the space between letters and varies per character to create comfortable
looking typography.

Tracking varies per character to create a comfortable looking typography. - False

The joining of two or three separate characters to form a single unit to avoid
interference is called as - Ligature

Superscripts: The characters that are aligned with the ascender line.

Subscripts: The characters that are aligned with the descender line.

A small stroke extending from the bowl of a 'g' or 'r' is called as - Ear

A stroke that joints two other letter parts is called as - Link

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