In
typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), an ...
, cap height is the height of a
capital letter above the
baseline for a particular
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 ...
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[http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/glossary.html Glossary of (some) Typographic Terms] It specifically is the height of capital letters that are flat—such as H or I—as opposed to round letters such as O, or pointed letters like A, both of which may display
overshoot. The height of the small letters is the
x-height.
See also
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Body height (typography)
References
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