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Terminology current among type designers and producers is used to a limited degree throughout this volume. It is helpful for readers to become familiar with some basic special expressions and terms common to the type world. Let us state, at the outset, we are considering first normally printed letters, black ink on white paper, rather than invisible, abstract characters stored digitally on electronic or magnetic storage media.
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Karow, P. (1994). Typeface terminology. In: Digital Typefaces. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78105-6_2
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