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Typography Terms - Paragraphs

  • Hanging indent: when the first line of a paragraph's leftmost margin is further to the left relative to the margins of the lines that follow.

  • Leading (aka line height or line spacing): the negative vertical spaces between lines.

  • Ligature: when two or more letters touch to form a single character. Usually used for branding or aesthetic purposes (Example: FedEx). Sometimes also used for linguistic purposes (For example, in French with the oe)

  • Gazdook: the decoration or the way of connecting two letters of a ligature.

  • Orphan: a single word or a very short line of text on its own line after a line break.

  • Line break: the point in a block of text where one line ends and the next one begins.

  • Paragraph break: the point in a block of text where one paragraph ends and the next one begins.

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Updated 2022-09-08

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