weight - variations in the darkness of type images created by the width of the lines that make up each character. weight is usually described in terms of light, medium, heavy, bold, and black
width - some typefaces include fonts that vary in the width of the characters or stretch they can be labled as compressed, condensed or narrow, wide, extended or expanded
style - level of boldness or kind of letter within a typeface. a style might be narrow, condensed, italic, extended, small capitals, or a series of symbols adapted to suit the particular typeface
font - often used as a collective name for a typeface but actually referring only to a single style.
typeface - the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks
x-height - the height of the lower case x. its an important feature because it largely determine the apparent size of a typeface. it is called x-height because the x is generally easiest to measure
cap height - height in millimeters of a capital letter in a particular typeface. this is not directly related to the body size
leading - this term derives from the days of metal type and is often confused with line spacing. leading is the extra white that was added between the lines of metal type in the form of strips of lead or lead alloy
letter spacing (tracking) - the amount of white spacing between letters
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