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Joining stroke

The joining stroke is a stroke that connects two or more letters in a ligature or that connects two or more divide characters, as in a linking script. This joining stroke is in a ligature also sometimes known as a tie.

Justified text

Justified text in which word spaces are attuned so that outline of type are perpendicularly aligned at left and right, forming soft edges along the margins. Justifed text is the process of creating this effect is called justification.

Justification:

This process is varying wordspacing within a line of type so that it extends to a particular line length.

Justified Type:

This type is lines of text with word spacing various type of text so that it aligns down both the left and right margins of the measure.