Ascender (typography)

In the typography letters can be arranged in a vertical line system, comparable to the staff in the music notation.

As a means length or x-height is referred to in this line the system from the baseline (including baseline ) measured from regular height of lower case letters in a font that do not have ascenders, such as in x.

With ascender is referred to those parts of the lowercase letters which cross the center line to the top, as in d and k DIN 16507-2 measures the ascender down to the baseline.

The short length means those parts of lowercase letters that exceed the baseline down to see the g, j, p, q and y.

As cap height refers to the height of capital letters. The ascent usually protrudes slightly over the cap height to make straight and curved letters appear through this optical trick equally high.

The accent height is the vertical distance of the upper vertex of accented capital letters (eg, Ê ) from the baseline.

The typeface height, the largest vertical extent of the font, usually given as hp- height, ie the sum of the upper, middle and lower length or from the upper and lower length. Optionally, Versal or accent height and descender are added.

The height of the cone is a term from the lead set time, and refers to the height of the lead cone bearing the characters of a font. Since the cone are slightly higher than the letters cone height is slightly greater than the sum of the upper, middle and lower length.

The bullet also referred to in the age of digital still set the space between the lines.