Wuiz Flashcards
– refers to the line on top of a capital letter. This is located just above the
waistline. All letters that reach the ascender line are called ascending letters.
ASCENDER LINE
– refers to the line that is found below just below the baseline. All letters
that go down to the descender line are called descending letters.
DESCENDER LINE
refers to the writing line that the body of the letter sits upon.
BASE LINE (or WRITING LINE) –
refers to the guideline showing the correct position for the upper boundary of the
x-height.
WAISTLINE
refers to the height of the letter between the bas
X-HEIGHT
refers to the height of the capital or uppercase letters.
CAP LINE or CAP-HEIGHT
an oversized capital letter used to start a paragraph.
DROP CAP –
refers to characters that combine or connect. For instance, letter A combines with
E, following (ff); street (st.). Ligature can be standard and personalized. A writer can be known
based on personalized ligature.
LIGATURE
the space inside the loops of selected letters.
COUNTER
– refers to the pen point.
NIB
refers to the angle at which the nib meets the paper relative to the baseline.
PEN ANGLE
– a small stroke that begins or ends a letter.
SERIF
– the foundation of every character.
STEM (Also known as Staff, Trunk, or Stalk)
is a form of letter beautification that is usually found in aesthetically printing
characters.
BRACKET
refers to the slope of a letter. The 3 kinds are slant to the right, left and vertical slant.
SLANT –
