Typography Anatomy (Part 2)

More fun with type basics! Here's another four terms to beef up your typographic vocabulary.

Shoulder:

a curved stroke of a character that faces downward

Diacritic (accent):

a mark added to a character to assist in communicating specific pronunciation

Vertex:

the point where two strokes meet (on the exterior of a character)

Tittle:

a distinguishing mark added to a letter

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