G Terms
Grammalogue Now you know what to call a word represented by a symbol, such as & or @. Also called a logogram.
H Terms
Hairline Not actually the size of a human hair, of course, but generally the smallest available rule in any system. Should technically be 1/2 point.
Headlines Of course you know what a headline is, and a subhead, and maybe even a running head. But did you know that a stubhead appears in the left-hand column of a chart, and a spanner head strattles more than one column? And now you must know where a subspanner head goes.
Hints/Hinting One of the hidden quality issues in type design, especially with TrueType. Hints are computer algorithms that improve the display of type (particularly at small sizes) on your screen. Better hints equal better type display at low resolutions. Good hints are done by hand on a face-to-face basis.
I Terms
Inferior Don't feel sorry-it's just those little letters and numbers that appear below the baseline. And superior, of course, are on top.
Inline Starts at the edge of a letter and goes in. Outline, of course, starts at the same edge and goes out from the letter. Online is half in and half out.
Intellifont Developed by Monotype Imaging for use in Hewlett-Packard printers, Intellifont is a scalable font format that you really don't have to know anything about because it is invisible to the printer user.
Intercap or Intracap Giving something a name doesn't make it more acceptable, but these are here to stay. This is the generally accepted name for the practice of having capital letters in the middle of proper names, like PostScript, QuarkXPress, and ObnoXious. Sometimes called a camel cap.
Interrobang A symbol that had a brief life in the late 1960s. It was to be used to express both a question and exclamation at the same time, and was invented by the late Martin K. Speckter of Speckter & Associates.
