Components
Baseline
X-height (height of a lower case x)
Counter
Bowl
Ascender/descender
Stem
Point size etc
Weights and sizes
Light
Regular
Medium
Bold
Extra Bold etc
Styles
Condensed
Extended
Script etc
A ligature is when a couplet of letters become a single glyph
Body size is measured from the ascender to the descender
10pt lettering with 4pt leading = 14pt linefeed also known as 10/14 pt
- Same as 14pt baseline to baseline
10pt solid = no leading
1 Pica = 12 points. This makes the size of a point approximately 0.35mm. A pica is derived from the width of the capital "M" in the currently used typeface and defines the proportion of the letter width and height with respect to the point size of the current font.
For example, a 20pt body indented by 1em will be indented by the same width as a 20pt letter 'M' of that typeface.
Halation is the effect of white (or light) spreading against a dark background. This can impair the legibility of white text on black therefore the tracking is usually altered so the black ink does not impair the readability of the text.
This is an example of a DPS I created in my national diploma course using a 7 column grid:
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