Dec 3, 2012
Further Reading: FontShop Typographer’s Glossary
Back when I was with the creative team at FontShop, we built a little glossary to help customers become smarter font shoppers. That section of their site has grown into one of the most exhaustive sources of typography terms online, complete with handy illustrations and cross-references. We opened that page with a compact illustration of basic type anatomy (above). It’s pretty good — and set in one of my favorite typefaces, FF Clifford — but the set of diagrams in The Anatomy of Type is more clear and comprehensive.