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Glossary of Terms
Like any industry, ours uses a variety of terms. If you want to find out what they mean then you are in the right place! Simply click on a letter to see its list of terms. If the term you are looking for isn't listed in our glossary feel free to contact us so that we may help you as well as add it to our list.
X-axis
See x-coordinate.X-coordinate
A point on the horizontal axis of a grid, scale, or page dimension. Other term: x-axis. See also: y-coordinate.Xerographic Paper
Papers made to reproduce well in copy machines and laser printers.Xerography
An imaging method that electrostatically charges ink toner particles, which are attracted to areas of the paper that have been given an electrical charge. The dry toner is then heat fused to the paper, forming an image. This is the basis of almost all office copy machines.x-height
In typography, the x-height or corpus size refers to the height of the lower case letters in a font. Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (which is where the terminology came from), as well as the a, c, e, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, and z. However, in modern typography, the x-height is simply a design characteristic of the font, and while an x is usually exactly one x-height in height, this is not always the case.Letters whose height is greater than the x-height either have descenders which extend below the baseline, such as y, g, q and p, or have ascenders which extend above the x-height, such as l, k, b and d. The ratio of the x-height to the body height is one of the major characteristics that defines the appearance of a font.
The x-height of a given font is called one ex in that font, similarly to the way the width of the uppercase m is called one em.
X-line
The horizontal line that would indicate the top of non-ascender, lowercase letters such as a, c, e, m, o, p, x, y, and z. Other term: mean line.X-Y coordinates
a mathematical description of an element's position on a page.
