Design for Developers

Typography Cheat Sheet

Typeface

A typeface is a set of characters that share stylistic unity. It is comprised of an alphabet of letters, numbers, punctuation and diacritical marks.

Font

A complete character set of a particular typeface in one size.
Also, an electronic file that renders a typeface in all sizes.

Line-height

The distance between baselines.

Line Length

The maximum length of a single line of text.

Letter-spacing

Amount of space between a group of letters.