In today’s class we were told that we would learn all about ‘Typographic Anatomy’.
Ascender: It is a portion of a character that extends above the mean line.
Descender: It is the portion of a character that extrudes below the base line. We continued to learn about all parts of all alphabets.
Bowl: It is the enclosed rounded part of the character. The highlighted part is the bowl of a character.
Stem: vertical stroke in upright character. The highlighted part is the stem of a character.
Cross bar: horizontal stroke in a character. The highlighted part is the crossbar. 
Cross stroke: horizontal stroke intersects stem of lowercase ‘t’ or ‘f’. The highlighted part is the cross stroke. 
Tail: descending stroke, often decorative. The highlighted part is the tail. 
Leg: lower down sloping stroke of ‘K’ and ‘k’. Excluding any serif. The highlighted part is the leg.
Counter: open space in fully or partly closed area in character. The highlighted part is the counter.
Eye: much like counter, eye refers specifically to unclosed space in lowercase ‘e’.
Ear: small stroke extending from upper right side of bowl of lowercase ‘g’, appears on angled or curved lowercase ‘r’.
Link: stroke that connects the top and bottom bowls of lowercase double story g’s.
Loop: the enclosed or partially enclosed counter below the base line of a lowercase double story g. 
Shoulder: curved stroke aiming downward from a stem. The highlighted part is the shoulder. 
Spine: main curved stroke of lowercase or capital ‘S’. 
Terminal/finial: terminal is the end of stroke that does not include a serif. The highlighted part is the terminal. 
Tear-drop terminal: tear-dropped ends of strokes in letters of some typefaces. 
Apex: point at top of character where two strokes meet. 
Aperture: opening at the end of an open counter. 
Diagonal stroke/arm: horizontal or upward slopping stroke that does not connect to stroke or stem on one or both ends. 
Hairline: thin stroke usually common to serif typefaces. 
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