Parts of A Letter

Type evolved from handwriting which is created by making a series of marks by the hand. All of these simple marks are distinctively  different from one another to tell them apart. In typography they have many different technical terms like a serif and a bracket that help characterize each font from one another.The stroke width also comes affects what the font looks like. There are so many different fonts and characteristics of each of these fonts. Even if it is just the tiniest sari or line width. There are also different sets of curves and rounded edges. A example would be a capitol R and all the different ways the leg of the R can change. They have Old style, traditional, modern, slab serif, and sans serif. These are all different curves of different fonts and the style approaches that they take. There are also many technical terms for the different aspects of a letter like the cross bar of a uppercase A or an ascender of a lowercase d.