Parts of a Letter

Typography is one of those things that is very overlooked and forgotten about unless you are asked to look more closely at it. We see words everyday but we do not stop to think about all the different sizes and type design that we are looking at. Sometimes they are arranged so that it is much harder to understand or better make out what the word is, and sometimes they are very distinctive, such as a plane serif font. Until i read this reading on parts of a letter i did not know there were so many parts of a letter to be identified, and that just by making a stroke width thicker than the other, it creates a different design. Another thing that brought my attention is that all letters (are supposed to) sit on a baseline which reminds me of when i was first learning to right and we were always given assignments where our letters fit perfectly in the baseline, and now i seem to neglect that aspect of typography. Although i know that most people don't have a care in the world if a words letter has an apex or a bowl, or a bard, or crossbar, a word is a word and we read it all the same; however i do think it is interesting to think we don't read words any differently no matter what parts of a letter a word has or doesn't have.