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Units of measurement
Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting. Traditional typometry units are different from familiar metric units
Typographic_unit
Metric typographic units have been devised and proposed several times to overcome the various traditional point systems. After the French Revolution of
Metric_typographic_units
Unit of length used in type design
The pica is a typographic unit of measure that has varied in size historically and by jurisdiction. The modern de facto standard size is exactly 1⁄6 of
Pica_(unit)
Typographic unit equal to the point size
Therefore, this unit is the same for all typefaces at a given point size. The em space is one em wide. Typographic measurements using this unit are frequently
Em_(typography)
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility
List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
List_of_typographical_symbols_and_punctuation_marks
Typographic unit equal to half an em
An en (from English en quadrat) is a typographic unit, half of the width of an em. By definition, it is equivalent to half of the body height of the typeface
En_(typography)
Art of arranging type
equivalents Typographic alignment – Setting of text flow or image placement relative to a page, column, table cell, or tab Typographic unit – Units of measurement
Typography
Typographical space as wide as a numeral
A figure space or numeric space is a typographic unit equal to the size of a single numerical digit. Its size can fluctuate somewhat depending on which
Figure_space
Measurement unit used in typography
English points at around 0.350 mm. The Truchet point, the first modern typographic point, was 1⁄12 of a French line (French: ligne). It was invented by
Point_(typography)
Set of characters that share common design features
text by means of arranging physical types or digital equivalents Typographic unit – Units of measurement Typography – Art of arranging type Unicode font –
Typeface
Acronym for "what you see is what you get" in computing
proportional spacing of characters). The Alto monitor (72 PPI, based on the typographic unit) was designed so that one full page of text can be seen and then printed
WYSIWYG
Topics referred to by the same term
customary unit of volume. Quart may also refer to: Quart Festival, a music festival in Norway Quart (typographic unit), a proposed metric typographic unit Quart
Quart_(disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
see article Programmable controller (disambiguation) Pica (unit) (pc), a typographic unit of measure Program counter, a special register inside CPUs Path
PC
Typographical measurement
is a typographical measurement, defined as 1⁄20 of a typographical point. One twip is 1⁄1440 inch, or 17.64 μm. Twips are screen-independent units to ensure
Twip
Typographic unit; approximately 1.81 mm
An agate (US) or ruby (UK) is a unit of typographical measure. It is 5.5 typographical points, or about 1⁄13 inch (1.94 mm). It can refer either to the
Agate_(typography)
Unit of measure used in typography
measurement. Jacques André and Denis Girou (1999). "Father Truchet, the typographic point, the Romain du roi, and tilings" (PDF). TUGboat. 20. Archived from
Cicero_(typography)
List of radicals in Unicode List of Unicode fonts List of typefaces Typographic unit Unicode Consortium Fallback font – Type of reserve typeface Unicode
List_of_Unicode_characters
Typographic abbreviation of the word "number(s)"
or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, No., or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially
Numero_sign
Height of the space in which a type element is defined
the space in which a glyph is defined Em – Typographic unit equal to the point size En – Typographic unit equal to half an em Glyph – Purposeful written
Body_height_(typography)
SI unit of electric conductance
writing the symbol by hand. The usual typographical distinctions (such as italic for variables and roman for units) are difficult to maintain. Likewise
Siemens_(unit)
System of measurements
system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined
Imperial_units
German printers active in Italy, 1400s, sometime partners
gave its name to the typographic unit of measurement named cicero, Continental Europe's equivalent of the pica typographic unit. Their editorial director
Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim
Arnold_Pannartz_and_Konrad_Sweynheim
Unit of volume
Lambda (written λ, in lowercase) is a non-SI unit of volume equal to 10−9 m3, 1 cubic millimetre (mm3) or 1 microlitre (μL). Introduced by the BIPM in
Lambda_(unit)
in size rather than identical in number of points.[citation needed] Typographic unit Typometer Pitch (typewriter) Courier (typeface) List of typefaces The
Traditional_point-size_names
Topics referred to by the same term
Paren (river), a river in northeastern Russia Paren space, a blank typographic unit equal to the size of a parenthesis PAREN, a political party in Burkina
Paren_(disambiguation)
960 (7-bit Hebrew ISO/IEC 646) Figure space (typographic unit equal to the size of a single typographic figure) Six-bit character code List of binary
List of information system character sets
List_of_information_system_character_sets
Unit of length
of John Locke's proposal for decimalisation of English measures The typographic point was originally 1/9 of the height of a (capital) letter (cap height)
Inch
publish an edition of Cicero's letters that gives its name to the typographic unit of measurement the cicero. 1468 31 May – The Byzantine scholar Cardinal
15th_century_in_literature
Typographic measuring device
A typometer is a ruler which is usually divided in typographic points or ciceros on one of its sides and in centimeters or millimeters on the other, which
Typometer
Measure of dot density
inch – a related concept for image scanners Lines per inch Metric typographic units Display resolution Mouse DPI Twip Points Per Degree The acronym appears
Dots_per_inch
Unit of length
an astronomical unit, which has the same initials and therefore abbreviation) may be used in less formal contexts or typographically limited media. The
Angstrom
Topics referred to by the same term
(Cyrillic), 15th letter of the Cyrillic alphabet En (typography), a unit of typographical width Dash#En dash /en dash/, a dash of length 1 en En language
EN
Computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard
fonts List of Unicode fonts Open-source Unicode typefaces Foundries Typographic unit Unicode Consortium "Fonts and keyboards". Unicode Consortium. 28 June
Unicode_font
Seventh letter of the Latin alphabet
language orthography shares this feature. The modern lowercase g has two typographic variants: the single-storey (sometimes "opentail") g, and the double-storey
G
Definite article in English
thorn <þ>, eth <ð>, and yogh <ʒ>. The substitution of visually similar typographic forms has led to some anomalies which persist to this day in the reprinting
The
Uppercase or lowercase
and font used): (Some lowercase letters have variations e.g. a/ɑ.) Typographically, the basic difference between the majuscules and minuscules is not
Letter_case
Unit of measurement for temperature
the numerical value and the unit symbol. Other languages, and various publishing houses, may follow different typographical rules. Unicode provides the
Celsius
French units of measurement before 1789
(about 4 parts in one million) than the pied used in France. The French typographic point, the Didot point, was 1⁄72 of a French inch, i.e. two royal points
Traditional French units of measurement
Traditional_French_units_of_measurement
Typographical symbol (@)
The at sign (@) is a typographical symbol used as an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14)
At_sign
Reversing type Sort Type color Type design Typeface list Typographic units Agate Cicero Em En Metric units Pica Point traditional point-size names Twip Digital
History_of_the_Latin_script
Non-metric unit of length
A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in a system of units using inches. Equal to 1⁄1000 of an inch, a thousandth is commonly called a thou
Thousandth_of_an_inch
Self-contained unit of discourse in writing
indent is superfluous and can therefore be omitted. The Elements of Typographic Style states that "at least one en [space]" should be used to indent
Paragraph
Font designed to aid retention of the content written using it
Geometric and Humanist typefaces, in the traditions of the International Typographic Style and resembles an obscured and disjointed form of a typeface such
Sans_forgetica
Episcopal Churchyard, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Typographic unit Binny & Ronaldson Pasko, Wesley Washington (1894). American Dictionary
Lawrence Johnson (type-founder)
Lawrence_Johnson_(type-founder)
Ninth letter of the Latin alphabet
represents the number 1. In mathematics, a lowercase "i" is used to represent the unit imaginary number, while an uppercase "I" serves to denote an identity matrix
I
Convention of symbols representing language
Chicago. ISBN 978-1-885923-76-9. The World's Writing Systems – all 294 known writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status
Writing_system
Method of drawing
"IF'" with a total length is 537 km, and the height of the drawing in typographic units is 319,334,400 points. Typical computer fonts at standard resolutions
GPS_drawing
Topics referred to by the same term
Strait st, the ISO 639-1 language code for the Sesotho language ſt or st, typographic ligatures Standard Theory in generative grammar ST connector, a type
ST
Twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet
Roman numeral L represents the number 50. In the International system of units, the liter (or litre) is abbreviated using a lower-case l or ℓ, or an upper-case
L
Typographical symbol of a small circle
keyboard mapping being used. Geometric Shapes (Unicode block) List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks Prime (symbol) Question mark Florian Cajori
Degree_symbol
Italian printing press manufacturer and former type foundry
Reversing type Sort Type color Type design Typeface list Typographic units Agate Cicero Em En Metric units Pica Point traditional point-size names Twip Digital
Nebiolo_Printech
American printer and typefoinder
be explained by the long-term use of the moulds in those days. Typographic unit – Units of measurement Traditional point-size names Speech given by 'Mr
Nelson_Hawks
Punctuation or diacritical mark (')
for example, ď, ť, ľ, and Ľ. This is especially so in certain common typographic renderings. But it is non-standard to use an apostrophe instead of the
Apostrophe
In typography, width of a block of typeset text
agents that do not support the ch unit a value of 33em can be used as, on average, one character takes up 0.5 of a typographic em. Legibility research specific
Line_length
Typographical symbol (*)
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The asterisk (/ˈæstərɪsk/), *, is a typographical symbol that is a stylised image of a star. An asterisk is usually five-
Asterisk
Glyph combining two or more letterforms
æsc) when used in Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, or Old English is not a typographic ligature. It is a distinct letter — a vowel — and when collated, may
Ligature_(writing)
Typographical mark (\)
The backslash \ is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash ('solidus'), /. It is a relatively
Backslash
Long horizontal line punctuation mark
explain: ‘Eclipses’ in the seventeenth century were grammatical and typographical as much as they were astronomical (and in all of these forms they are
Dash
Smallest functional written unit
Latin alphabet), the lowercase Latin letter "a" can appear in different typographic forms. Since substitution of one form for another usually does not change
Grapheme
Monetary symbol used in many national currencies
than the primary code point, but the difference is mostly aesthetic or typographic, and the meanings of the symbols are the same. U+FE69 ﹩ SMALL DOLLAR
Dollar_sign
Topics referred to by the same term
Ditto mark (〃), a typographic symbol indicating that the word(s) or figure(s) above it are to be repeated Gershayim (״), a typographical mark in the Hebrew
"_(disambiguation)
Triple-dot punctuation mark
according to this style. According to Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style, the details of typesetting ellipses depend on the character and
Ellipsis
Topics referred to by the same term
All pages with titles containing Carat Carrot, a vegetable Caret, a typographic mark Kareth, a form of punishment by exile This disambiguation page lists
Carat
Topics referred to by the same term
automobile produced by General Motors Holden in the late 1970s Hz-program, a typographic composition computer program created by Hermann Zapf. HZ University of
HZ
Twenty-first letter in the Greek alphabet
correct in this use. It typically appears in a form adapted to a Latin typographic environment, with a more upright shape than normal Greek letters and
Phi
Representation of isolatable musical sound
Thus the octaves below tenor C are written C, ͵C, ͵͵C, etc. A number of typographic variants exist for Helmholtz notation. For instance, primes and sub-primes
Musical_note
Twenty-fourth letter of the Latin alphabet
used to refer to the horizontal axis. It is also sometimes used as a typographic approximation for the multiplication sign, ×. In mathematical typesetting
X
Aspect of the Unicode standard
some contexts. Thus, for example, U+FB00 ff LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FF, a typographic ligature, is defined to be compatible with, but not canonically equivalent
Unicode_equivalence
Purposeful written mark
Icelandic and |ß| in German may be regarded as glyphs. They were originally typographic ligatures, but over time have become characters in their own right; these
Glyph
Leader of China from 1949 to 1976
everywhere, present in homes, offices and shops. His quotations were typographically emphasised by putting them in boldface or red type in even the most
Mao_Zedong
Topics referred to by the same term
moveable type Typometry (typography), the measurement of typefaces in typographic units This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title
Typometry
Typographical symbol
{\displaystyle f'\,\!} . List of mathematical symbols by subject List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks Rubik's Cube move notation, where the
Prime_(symbol)
Letter in the Armenian alphabet
alpha Rounded Erkat'agir Angular Erkat'agir Bolorgir Notrgir Shghagir Typographic form Handwritten form Braille form Dots-1 Armenian alphabet Mesrop Mashtots
Ayb_(letter)
Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes
arroba or amphora— units of trade; from the 1990s, its use outside commerce became widespread, as part of e-mail addresses. Typographically, the ampersand
Scribal_abbreviation
Blank area that separates text
proper amount of sentence spacing in typeset material. The Elements of Typographic Style states that only a single word space is required for sentence spacing
Space_(punctuation)
Latin letter U with umlaut/diaeresis
can be recreated in modern Unicode using combining diacritics, modern typographic standards do not recommend doing so. In the Hungarian alphabet, double
Ü
Typographic symbol (#)
the part of my report in which I regretted the absence of a unique typographical name for the character "#", and said they had solved my problem by coining
Number_sign
Used in graphic design to guide objects
organizing the page. The result was the modern typographic grid that became associated with the International Typographic Style. The seminal work on the subject
Grid_(graphic_design)
Style for gender-neutral written German
a medial capital I (German: Binnen-I) is a non-standard, mixed case typographic convention used to indicate gender inclusivity for nouns having to do
Binnen-I
British book publishing company
2025-06-11. TypeRoom. "Design is the real star in National Theatre Posters typographic legacy - TypeRoom". www.typeroom.eu. Retrieved 2025-06-11. "Exploring
Unit_Editions
Punctuation mark (!)
"bang" usage is behind the names of the interrobang, an unconventional typographic character, and the shebang, a feature of Unix computer systems. In the
Exclamation_mark
Horizontal line immediately above a portion of writing
An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an
Overline
Currency of Thailand
modern numismatic history occurred during the transition between these typographic styles in 1977 (B.E. 2520). The mint authorities released a new standard
Thai_baht
Standardized quantities and units
headings of table columns, where repeating the unit after each numerical value can be typographically inconvenient. Quantities are generally represented
ISO_31-0
Free and open-source productivity software suite
for consistent appearance. LibreOffice supports a range of advanced typographic features through its use of OpenType, Graphite, and Apple Advanced Typography
LibreOffice
One hundredth of one percentage point
100 bp = 1%, 10−2, 1/100, or 0.01. Basis points are used as a convenient unit of measurement in contexts where percentage differences of less than 1% are
Basis_point
Elite infantry units and standing army of the Ottoman Empire (active 1363–1826)
unmarried youths, serving in various roles in the early Ottoman army Typographical error for acemiler agası. Nicolle 1983, pp. 9–10. Ágoston 2014, p. 113
Janissary
Systematic rules for naming chemical compounds and chemistry concepts
well-defined polyethylene glycols (PEGs). IUPAC nomenclature is accompanied by typographic conventions. A summary of key rules is provided below. Capital letters:
IUPAC nomenclature of chemistry
IUPAC_nomenclature_of_chemistry
American broadcast journalist (born 1931)
documents were proportionally printed and displayed using other modern typographic conventions usually unavailable on military typewriters of the 1970s
Dan_Rather
Most common system for writing numbers
numerals" which were developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb (there are two typographic styles for rendering western Arabic numerals, known as lining figures
Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system
Mechanical device for typing characters
compound documents were created using manual paste up techniques for typographic page layout. Actual brushes and paste were later replaced by hot-wax
Typewriter
Topics referred to by the same term
Zygaenidae Punctum (gastropod), a genus of land snails Punctum delens, typographic marks used to indicate deletion Neume, the basic element of Western and
Punctum
Company logo
May 24, 2014, the Google logo was slightly updated with some minor typographical tweaks, with the second 'g' moved right one pixel and the 'l' moved
Google_logo
System of symbolic representation
letters, some are obtained by deforming letters, some are traditional typographic symbols, but many have been specially designed for mathematics. The International
Mathematical_notation
2022 studio album by Drake and 21 Savage
The visuals were briefly interrupted at the 1:25-mark, with text in typographic letters appearing reading "Her Loss – album by Drake and 21 Savage –
Her_Loss
Grotesque sans-serif typeface
introduced Impact 2010, an enhanced version with additional OpenType typographic features designed by Terrance Weinzierl and Steve Matteson. These included
Impact_(typeface)
Punctuation mark
(mathematics) International variation in quotation marks Emoticon Japanese typographic symbols Order of operations Triple parentheses McArthur & McArthur 2005
Bracket
System of phonetic notation
letters for palatal consonants. ⟨c⟩ and ⟨ɟ⟩ are not uncommonly used as a typographic convenience for affricates, typically [t͜ʃ] and [d͜ʒ], while ⟨ɲ⟩ and
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Compact notation for chemical compounds
commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs. These are limited to a single typographic line of symbols, which may include subscripts and superscripts. A chemical
Chemical_formula
Measure of lens speed
subtracted stop meaning a factor of one-half. The one-stop unit is also known as the EV (exposure value) unit. On a camera, the aperture setting is traditionally
F-number
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who dwelt in a valley (see Dean 1).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a headland, Middle English hevedland.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a marsh (see Marsh).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English atte wode ‘by the wood’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a rowan (see Rountree).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name, from an adjectival derivative of South.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name, a variant of East.English : variant of Eastmond.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a boundary, Old French devise.
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of the French topographic name Garrigue (see Garrigues).Scottish
Americanized spelling of the French topographic name Garrigue (see Garrigues).Scottish : variant of Garioch, a habitational name from the district in Aberdeenshire so named.English : habitational name from Garwick in Lincolnshire, named from an Old English personal name Gǣra + Old English wīc ‘(dairy) farm’.The name is closely associated with the Huguenots. The English actor-manager David Garrick (1717–79) was the grandson of David de la Garrique, who fled Bordeaux in 1685, changing his family name to Garric on arrival in England. Other Garricks (Garicks) were in SC in the 1820s.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational or topographic name, from a derivative of Forrest.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Middle English bi yerd ‘by the enclosure’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a market, Middle English market.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Middle English valeye.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name, from an adjectival form of North.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedge, Middle English hegg(e).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived at a moorland croft.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone living by a poplar tree.
Surname or Lastname
English (De Lisle) and French
English (De Lisle) and French : topographic and habitational name (see Lyle).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic or habitational name, from a derivative of Wick.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pond, Old English mere.English : topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, Old English (ge)mǣre.
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for a fleet runner, from Old French pie de lievre ‘hare’s foot’.German : occupational name for a calibrator (someone who checked weights and measures), from an agent derivative of Middle Low German pegel ‘mark or measure for gauging fluids’, ‘gauge’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the many places, such as Farnell (Kent, Wiltshire), Farnhill (West Yorkshire), and Fernhill (Cheshire), named from Old English fearn ‘fern’ + hyll ‘hill’. In a few cases it may also derive from Farnell in Angus, Scotland, although the surname is not now common in Scotland.
Girl/Female
Biblical
My garment.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Dughter of Sun (Surya)
Boy/Male
English
Safety.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Song of Virtues
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for a chantry priest (or the servant of one), a priest endowed to sing mass daily on behalf of the souls of the dead (Late Latin capellanus). Compare Chaplin.Americanized spelling of Swiss German Kaeppelin, a diminutive of Kappel.
Female
African
comfort.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Pleasure Grove; Garden
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the barony of Lamberton in Berwickshire, or in some instances possibly from Lamerton in Devon, named from Old English lamb ‘lamb’ + burna ‘stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’, i.e. ‘farmsead on the lamb stream’.
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a.
Alt. of Typographical
n.
The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
n.
The act or art of expressing by means of types or symbols; emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
n.
The art of printing with types; the use of types to produce impressions on paper, vellum, etc.
n.
A printer.
v. i.
To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
a.
Of or pertaining to stylography; used in stylography; as, stylographic tablets.
a.
Of or pertaining to printing; typographical.
a.
Pertaining to, or used in, stylographic pen; as, stylographic ink.
a.
Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.
a.
Alt. of Xylographical
n.
A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.
a.
Of or pertaining to the act or act of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical.
n.
That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.
n.
Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.
a.
Same as Stylographic, 1.
a.
Alt. of Myographical
a.
Of or pertaining to typography or printing; as, the typographic art.
n.
A stylographic pen.