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Ear

A stroke extending from the higher part of the lowercase g in a few typefaces.

Expanded

Expanded means that the most part of generally describes typefaces that come into sight wider than other variants within the similar family, the reverse of condensed. several expanded typeface variants are known as extended.

Extreme

Extreme is in computer-aided type design, a point that is the uppermost, lowest, leftmost, or rightmost point of a character or character division. From the arithmetic term extremum (plural extrema).

En

A relative typographic unit of measure and it has no fixed value en equal to one-half the width of the em or half the type size. Custom holds that the en derivative its name from the lowercase n, which in a little typefaces occupies a space approximately as wide as the en.