In typography, cap height is the height of a capital letter above the baseline for a particular typeface.[1] It specifically is the height of capital letters that are flat—such as H or I—as opposed to round letters such as O, or pointed letters like A, both of which may display overshoot. The height of the small letters is the x-height.
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In typography, capheight is the height of a capital letter above the baseline for a particular typeface. It specifically is the height of capital letters...
serifed typefaces, the capital form of the letter has both a baseline and a capheight serif, while the lowercase L generally has a hooked ascender and a baseline...
A coonskin cap is a hat fashioned from the skin and fur of a raccoon. The headwear became associated with European Americans occupying lands on the United...
top of the ascent or a regular uppercase glyphs (cap line) is also known as the capheight. The height of the ascender can have a dramatic effect on the...
that the height of the cap is equal to the radius of the sphere, the spherical cap is called a hemisphere. The volume of the spherical cap and the area...
Golden Cap is a hill and cliff situated on the English Channel coast between Bridport and Charmouth in Dorset, England. At 191 metres (627 ft), it is...
Font-wide metrics include capheight (the height of the capitals), x-height (the height of the lowercase letters) and ascender height, descender depth, and...
small caps (short for "small capitals") are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters (capitals) but reduced in height and weight...
{\displaystyle E} is the plate or tray efficiency. So-called bubble-cap or valve-cap trays are examples of the vapor and liquid contact devices used in...
completely different genres such as sans-serifs and serifs and have the capheight, baseline and linespacing match perfectly, something not possible with...
ASCII. These properties include: CAP_HEIGHT (integer) The height above the baseline of a capital letter (See Capheight). COPYRIGHT (string) A copyright...
characters to make fractions, most modern fonts render most or all of these as capheight superscripts and baseline subscripts. The same font may align letters...
measures The typographic point was originally 1/9 of the height of a (capital) letter (capheight) but later acquired a number of different absolute definitions;...
at 72 pixels per inch. Particular attention should be paid to the capheight, x-height, and baseline, so that the font retains its normal character while...
its high x-height: typefaces with lower x-height, such as many versions of Garamond, Caslon and Bembo, are narrower at equalised capheight. Times New...
and the metal cap. The current version has 21 teeth. To open these bottles, a bottle opener is generally used. The height of the crown cap was reduced and...
variables defined just once in the whole font (e.g., stem widths, capheight, x-height). This means avoiding delta instructions as much as possible. This...
the degree to which a letter dips below the baseline, or exceeds the capheight Overshoot (combat aviation), a key concept in basic fighter maneuvers...
Book added two different weights (Medium and SemiBold) and small caps, and made cap-height numerals the default. It includes support for full extended Latin...
collection[usurped] at Nebraska State Historical Society The Coonskin CapHeight of the Craze. 1957 Wales Western Shirts "Guayabera". Archived from the...
Face"; many imitations follow its design, often adding lining figures at capheight and cropping the descenders as was necessary for "standard line" American...
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