E Terms
Ear Those little boxes of type on either side of a newspaper or magazine title. Often contain the weather or inside previews. Not to be mistaken for a letter's ear (see letter parts).
Embedded Fonts This is where fonts get saved and distributed automatically with a document so you can view them correctly on another machine. The font companies don't like this idea since it allows the receiver of a document to capture and then use the document creators'
fonts. Some font embedding routines, like TrueDoc, capture enough font information to render type properly when opened, but not enough to re-create whole fonts illegally.
Even Smalls is the term to use when you set in all small caps (with no full-size caps).
Exclamation mark or point! Sometimes called a screamer.
F Terms
Face We use this synonymously with type style. But it once meant the surface of a letter that gets inked.
Fixed Spaces Most spaces between words in a computer are variable spaces-they adjust in size to fit the circumstances and to make better justifications. But sometimes you want a fixed amount of space, which generally comes in three sizes: an em space (or mutt) which is equal to the point size of the type being used; an en space (or nutt), which is half an em space, or a thin space (no, not a thutt) which is generally 1/4 or 1/5 of an en space. Most page-layout applications have keyboard commands for these standard spaces. The use of fixed spaces is invaluable when lining up numbers in columns.
Fleuron You've seen lovely flower ornaments for separating sections of type. Now you know what they're called.
Folio is, of course, the page number in a document. But did you know that a blind folio is a page with no number? And that a drop folio is when the number appears at the bottom of the page? Any printed folio is said to be an expressed folio.
FOND From Font Family Descriptor, it's Apple's way of defining the relationship between styles in a type family, like bold, bold italic and italic, and it links the bitmap font to the printer font through a numbered ID system. In more recent Mac systems, FONDS have been supplanted by NFNTs, which now allow fonts to be identified to the system by name, not by an ID number. Utilities like Suitcase will help solve the rare FOND or NFNT conflicts that can crop up when you have tons of fonts installed in your system.
Font Not as simple as it seems. Once meant an individual size of a specific type style. Then it meant the actual physical device you installed in a typesetting machine. Now it generally means a single typestyle outline. Some insist on calling the whole type family a font, but you should consider each member of a type family a separate font.