LAYING TYPE--Putting a font of type into cases.
LEADERS--Dots or short dashes placed at intervals in open lines to guide the eye, as in indexes, price-lists, etc. They are cast like quads for sizes of type most used. Leaders are also made of brass.
LETTER--Sometimes this word is used to mean type. Letter-press printing, that done with type. Letter foundry, a type foundry.
LINING TYPE--The exact alignment at top or bottom of the face on a type-body. (16-18)
LINOTYPE--A machine for casting type in solid lines. (23)
LONG PRIMER--An old size of type nearly equal to 10-point. (15)
LOW-TO-PAPER--Said of a type when it does not come up to the height of its mates; opposite of high-to-paper. (7)
LOW SPACES AND QUADS--Those used for ordinary composition, about seven-eighths of the length of the type. (20)
LOWER-CASE--The small letters of the alphabet. (9)
MATRIX--The shallow mold in which the face of a type is cast. (21)
MINION--An old size of type, about 7-point. (15)
MONOTYPE--A machine for casting and composing type. (25)
MORTISED TYPE--When some part of the body is cut away, either in the interior or on the sides, to allow the insertion of another letter, or to fit closer to an adjoining type. (18)
MUSIC TYPE--An assortment of characters cast in type for printing music scores.
NICK--The notch on the side of a type. (8) In fonts made for use on the Unitype composing machine each character has nicks in different position and combination from every other character, to fit its special channel, in order to control the various characters in the operation of the machine. Thus the nicks in a line of Unitype matter show great irregularity.
NONPAREIL--Old name for size of type equal to 6-point; half pica (15)
OFF ITS FEET--Type must stand squarely upright in order to give a good impression; when it leans one way or the other it is off its feet.
PARAGON--An old size of type, about 20-point (15)
PATENT SPACE--A type space thicker than three-to-em and less than the en-quad. (19)
PEARL--An old size of type, about 5-point. (15)
PI--Types of different kinds mixed up in confusion.
PICA--Old name, but still commonly used, for a size of type equal to 12-point. (15) A common unit of measurement in typography.