Majuscule: An industry term for capital letter.
Miniscule: An industry term for lowercase letter.
Masthead: 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 advertising information, etc.
Measure (noun): In type it is 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 it is a screen that produces connected and dusty-looking dots.
Moiré patterns (pronounced "mo-ray"): These are 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 work.
Monospaced type: A typewriter typeface in which the amount of horizontal space taken up by each of the characters is the same.
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