Majuscule
a capital letter.
Miniscule
a lowercase letter.
Masthead
the credit box, headed by the publication name, that lists sponsors, editors, writers, designers, illustrators, photographers, and others, along with the publication office address, subscription and advertisinginformation, etc.
Measure
(noun) in typography, the length of a line, even if the line is not filled with characters (such as a centered or partial line), designated in picas. When the text is set in columns, the line length is called columnmeasure.
Mezzotint
for a halftone, a special screen that produces connected, dusty-looking dots.
Moiré patterns
(pronounced "mo-ray") irregular plaid-like patterns that occur when a bit-mapped image is reduced, enlarged, displayed, or printed at a resolution different from the resolution of the original.
Monospaced type
a (typewriter) typeface in which the amount of horizontal space taken up by each character is the same.
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