Font Type

Most typefaces are classified into one of five basic classifications: serif, sans serif, script, monospaced, and display.

More terms you might want to know

User Research

A field of study that aims to understand the user experience of a product or service. Conducting UX research includes interviewing, observing, and surveying users. Understanding the user experience is important because it helps designers understand how to design a better product that will be more appealing and usable for people.

Soft Return

Also called a line break, when you want to keep the text in one paragraph and not follow it with an airy space.

Font Style

Designers and developers use font styles to denote differences in meaning between two or more words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or blocks of text. Typical font styles in CSS and web development are normal, italic, oblique and inherit.

Quick Keys or Shortcuts

A Shortcut is a computer function that performs a set of commands to save time. A Quick Key is a keyboard shortcut used to trigger an action.

Pagination

A technique used to sequentially present items in a list or other data set that are too long to display at one time.

Font Type

Most typefaces are classified into one of five basic classifications: serif, sans serif, script, monospaced, and display.

Opacity

The measure of how easily light passes through a material. It is a quantitative characteristic that can be represented as a number within the range of [0, 1], and in some cases [0%,100%], with lower numbers indicating higher transparency.

Ellipsis

Also known as a suspension point, is a series of dots (…) that is used either as a substitute for some text that has been omitted from a sentence or when the author does not wish to pause in their writing.

Scale

The distance between two points of extrusion or an object. It can also be defined as the measurement of size.

Tittle

The typographic term for the dot above the letters 'i' and 'j'.

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