descender
Sign in to savethumb|390px|Descenders are parts of a character that lie below the baseline.|class=skin-invert-image In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a grapheme that extends below the baseline of a font.
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- External links
thumb|390px|Descenders are parts of a character that lie below the baseline.|class=skin-invert-image In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a grapheme that extends below the baseline of a font.
For example, in the letter y, the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the v created by the two lines converging. In the letter p, it is the stem reaching down past the ɒ.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “descender” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.