Small Glossary of Typography

Through personal experience and practical application, I learned the different terminology for typography on the street. This isn’t an uncommon method for learning a language; in fact, it is the most natural. This is how we teach children how to speak and this is how our elders taught us.

However, when we must communicate in written language with people we don’t know, haven’t met or even haven’t seen their faces, we can’t just stick to the “empirical” definitions of terms. We must research for the conceptual limits of vocabulary and “agree” on the meaning of these terms.

That is why, before explaining this small series of articles on typography, we should look and define the meaning of the terms: letters, character, typography, typology, font and font family (or group).