Although you probably know the difference between serif and sans-serif fonts, typography is actually so much more interesting than that. Did you know that letters can be dissected into parts as if they were a puzzle? Like people, fonts have personalities, moods, styles—and even anatomical features!
In this article, you will look at the different parts that make up letters and their real-life counterparts, visualized in the guide below with some fun analogies. And last but not least, you seet how type is manipulated to better fit in a space so that it looks balanced and easy on the eye.