"T" Vocab for "T"ypography

Tag Image File Format (TIFF).

A computer format forencoding pictures as high-resolution bitmapped images, suchas those created by scanners.

Telecommunications.

Sending messages to distant locations;usually refers to communicating by telephone lines.

Terminal.

See Video display terminal.

Text.

The main body of written or printed material, as opposedto display matter, footnotes, appendices, etc.

Text type.

See Body type.

Thumbnail.

A miniature image of a page, either a smallplanning sketch made by a designer or a reduction in a page-layout program.

TIFF.

See Tag Image File Format.

Tracking.

The overall tightness or looseness of the spacing between all characters in a line or block of text. Sometimes usedinterchangeably with kerning, which more precisely is the reduction in spacing between a specific pair of letters.

Transitional.

Classification of type styles combining aspects ofboth Old Style and Modern typefaces; for example, Baskerville.

Type family.

The complete range of variations of a typeface design, including roman, italic, bold, expanded, condensed, andother versions.

Typeface.

The design of alphabetical and numerical charactersunified by consistent visual properties.

Type-high.

The standard foot-to-face height of metal types;0.9186 inches in English-speaking countries.

Typescript.

Typewritten manuscript material used as copy fortypesetting.

Typesetting.

The composing of type by any method orprocess, also called composition.

Type specimen.

A typeset sample produced to show the visualproperties of a typeface.

Typo.

See Typographical error.

Typographer.

A firm specializing in typesetting. Sometimesused to denote a compositor or typesetter.

Typographical error.

A mistake in typesetting, typing, orwriting.

Typography.

Originally the composition of printed matter frommovable type. Now the art and process of typesetting by anysystem or method.