Learn: B
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Baseline
The invisible line where letters sit.
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Bitmap
A kind of digital font that contains character shape data in the form of bits or pixels arranged in a grid pattern.
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Blackletter
A script style of calligraphy made with a broad-nibbed pen using vertical, curved and angled strokes. Popular from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance (and up to the 20th Century mainly in Germany). Styles are often associated with certain countries or regions.
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Bowl
A curved stroke that encloses a letter’s counter.
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Brush Script
Typefaces modeled after lettering made with a brush. Strongly associated with advertising in the mid-20th Century on. Classic example: Brush Script.