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Text figures

Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old style, ranging, hanging, medieval, billing, or antique figures or numerals) are numerals designed with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name. They are contrasted with lining figures (also called titling or modern figures), which are the same height…

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Text figures

Nodes44
Edges43
Triples23
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.045455
Components1

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Text figures

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related to history · 14
Text figures → Amusingly, Arabic, As, During, Europe, European, John Bell, Lining, Middle Ages, Richard Austin, Roman, They, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia
related to Design · 9
Text figures → Didot, France, French, High-quality, In, Lining, Other, Sometimes, Theano Didot

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figures text lining numerals also fonts digital modern height early typefaces characters lowercase name letters opentype georgia used different better

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Text figuresrelated to DesignIn0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignOther0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignDidot0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignFrance0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignFrench0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignTheano Didot0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignSometimes0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignHigh-quality0.60section
Text figuresrelated to DesignLining0.60section
Text figuresrelated to historyAs0.60section
Text figuresrelated to historyMiddle Ages0.60section
Text figuresrelated to historyArabic0.60section

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