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  1. Achromatic.

    Acromático.

  2. Air.

    Aire.

    White space used in a story or page design.

  3. Airbrush.

    Aerógrafo / Aerografía.

    Equipment that scatters pulverized ink by using compressed air. Used in graphic artwork, fine arts and photography retouch. Photoshop has a brush with this name and this same effect for image creation or retouch.

  4. Alignment.

    Alineación.

    Position of the multiple elements of a layout (art and type), relative to the layout itself but also to the elements, to one another. It also refers to the arrangement of the type within a line or a block of text.

  5. All caps.

    Tipografía en caja alta.

    Type using exclusively capital letters.

  6. Antique figures / Elzevirian figures.

    Cifras elzevirianas / Cifras antiguas.

    Figures based on the x-height of a typeface.

  7. Ascender.

    Asta ascendente.

    It refers to the part of a letter extending above the x-height.

  8. Attribution.

    Atribución.

    In a quote, is the line where the source is identified.

  9. Axis.

    Eje.

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