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Password, and paths in a URL are case sensitive ( that is “home” is different from “HOME”).

From this we get the terms uppercase and lowercase.

The upper drawer held the capital letters, and the lower drawer held the smaller letters.

When type was set by hand, the type for a font was kept in a drawer or case,.

The computer draws or rasterizes a letter on the screen with pixels or dots.

PostScript, TrueType and Master fonts can be altered.

the space between pairs of letters, called kerning.

adjust the line spacing (called leading) leading and.

Examples of styles are boldface and italic.

X‐height is the height of the lower case letter xįactors affecting legibility of text – Size.

Font sizes are in points 1 point = 1/72 inch (measured from top to bottom of descenders in capital letter).

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