Typography

Words

All learned. See them in History.

• All caps

  Text written only in capital letters.

• Drop cap

  A very large first letter at the start of a story, sitting down into the first few lines.

• Eyebrow

  A small line of text above a headline that names the topic, often in capitals and in the accent color.

• Fluid type

  Text whose size grows and shrinks smoothly with the screen width, between a smallest and a biggest size.

• Letter-spacing

  The space between every letter in a word.

• Monospace

  A font where every letter takes the same width, so an i is as wide as an M, like on an old typewriter.

• Sans-serif

  A font whose letters have no little "feet" at the ends of their strokes (sans means "without" in French).

• Serif

  A font whose letters have small "feet" at the ends of their strokes.

• Tabular numbers

  Digits that all have the same width, so a changing number doesn't wiggle and columns of numbers line up.