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Definition of Descenders
1. descender [n] - See also: descender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descenders
Literary usage of Descenders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown (1921)
"These proportions are not by any means invariable, however, and indeed there is
no fixed rule by which the proportions of ascenders and descenders to the ..."
2. Lettering by Thomas Wood Stevens (1916)
"This may be done, as in Figure, even to the point where the ascenders of one line
pass the descenders of the line above. In such a case it is necessary now ..."
3. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"The drawback was that the units that had been established were unsuited to the
classic roman letterform; the descenders were virtually amputated. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"When i or t was interpolated between ascending letters, when j occurred between
descenders, and when r and s were present in any context of whatever sort, ..."
5. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the by Theodore Low De Vinne (1900)
"To secure the highest durability on cylinder machines, types with short ascenders
and descenders, broad faces, and stubby serifs should be selected. ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Art of Printing by William Savage (1841)
"... the mere shapes of the letters; these were cast on a square shank, with all
the ascenders and descenders hanging over the body, which is styled kerned. ..."
7. The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman (1917)
"The eye takes little account of descenders in reading, because it runs along a
line just below the tops of the ordinary letters, about at the bar of the ..."
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