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Definition of "x-height" []

  • Printing The height of a lowercase x. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "x-height" in a sentence
  • "I think the Rather memo and the Word document may differ in x-height, with the Rather x-height slightly smaller."
  • "Another property that typographers look for is x-height, the proportion of the height of the lower case to the height of the uppercase."
  • "They observe an x-height that's too low, or a bold not bold enough, or a descender on a capital J-- the downward swoop -- not sufficiently expressive to distinguish it from an I."