typography
x-height
Height of lowercase letters without ascenders.
hauteur d'x
Hauteur des bas-de-casse sans jambage.
Classification
- typography
Attestation
- French term: Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 2004
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (14)
101 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 2 books
Show the 14 sources
- apcacontrast.com
- Beautiful evidence
- Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, 2004
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualization handbook
- French Wikipedia↗
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- The elements of typographic style
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visualizing with text
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/x-height.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. x-height. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/x-height.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-x-height,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {x-height},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/x-height.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.