Point 16

Question	Answer
Image: e48e1002-778a-44b9-a7c2-a4923a2c3c43 (image/png)	The Mean Line falls halfway between the distance of the baseline and the cap height.
Image: 7ffefb6a-6b39-4538-9596-d2a813602888 (image/png)	The ascender is the portion of the letter that extends above the meanline, or x-height.
Image: 2169de62-3d46-4f91-b533-c8e9fa168754 (image/png)	The baseline is the invisible line in which the texts rests upon.
Image: ec335bb0-079d-4538-9ce8-c4ce3f525899 (image/png)	The descender is the portion of the letter that extends below the baseline of text.
Image: 1a0ad310-7e93-43ad-a5a6-bb8856f64e1e (image/png)	Point size is the distance from the top of the tallest ascender to the bottom of the longest descender.
Image: 52b3cffa-5278-4e2f-b85e-0569e0e2bbed (image/png)	The x-height is the distance between the baseline and the mean-line of the lowercase letters of the text.

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	Created by Alexandria Borruso about 8 years ago