Glossary L

Layout

The typographic layout of a document or page significant type area, pagination, titles, columns, etc.

Leader

This type of line made up of a repetitive character, generally a period or a rush, to lead the look at crossways the gap between objects in adjacent columns.

This process is generally found in tables and lists.

Leading

Leading is the sum of straight up space from baseline to baseline of successive lines of text.

This process is also known as line spacing or interlinear space.

Leaf

Leaf is a only one sheet of paper in a book. A page is one side of a leaf.