A ball terminal is a design feature of a

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands o ...

or glyph where the end of a stroke takes a roughly circular shape, as opposed to a serif or a square end.

External links

"Ball terminal" at ParaType
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