Lawler, Brian P. 2006. A glossary of typographic terms.

First published as a chapter in the book The official Adobe print publishing guide, 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Adobe.2006.

And posted on http://www.adobe.com/uk/type/topics/glossary.html

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Multilingual glossary available in French, English and German.

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