Typography

TYPOGRAPHY

Since I don’t know much about typography, I decided to a blog about it to get an understanding of the basics. Later on I’ll be able to another blog based on what i have learnt from my research later on. 
There are several term that I researched that can be used to describe and categories fonts. All of these terms describe parts of a font that give the eye visual ideas to decoding the letters while reading.

v  Serifs are the flicks at the end of the letters

v  X-height refers to the height of the main body of the lowercase letters

v  The baseline is a line where the bottom of the main body of each letter rests

v  Ascenders are the parts of the letter that rise above the x-height

v  Weight if the thickness of the line in the font

v  be described which most fonts can be placed:

Sans Serif In typography, a sans-serif or sans serif typeface is one that doesn’t have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text. Sans-serif fonts have become the most popular type of body text on-screen, especially online.

Serifs In typography, serifs have strokes/flicks on the end. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface. A typeface without serifs is called sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”.