Typography

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8 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Typography.

• Characters per line — The maximum or typical count of monospaced character cells available on one displayed or printed line.
• Indentation (typesetting) — The use of controlled blank space at a text boundary to signal paragraphing, hierarchy, quotation or another structural role.
• Kashida — An Arabic-script justification technique that lengthens eligible cursive connections between letters, distributing horizontal expansion within words without changing their lexical characters.
• Numero sign — Use the conventional letterlike symbol № as a compact marker introducing an ordinal or identifying number, while preserving its U+2116 character identity and distinguishing language-specific substitutes such as No., Nº, and #.
• Ransom Note Effect — A typographic incoherence pattern in which excessive, locally juxtaposed changes of typeface or glyph style erase the document’s visual baseline, making each fragment compete as a marked exception and producing the stereotyped cut-and-paste ransom-note appearance.
• Script typeface — A typeface class whose letterforms emulate connected or gestural handwriting, ranging from formal calligraphic models to casual brush and pen styles.
• Typeface — A coordinated design system for glyph shapes across a repertoire, distinct from any one size, weight, width, slope, or digital font file.
• Widows and orphans — Typographic line-break defects in which too little of a paragraph is stranded at a column or page boundary, disrupting reading continuity and visual balance.