Weight: This denotes the thickness of a letter stroke, light, extra-light, regular, medium, demi-bold, bold, extra bold and ultra bold.
White space: In designing publications it is the areas where there is no text or graphics it is essentially the negative space of the page design.
Widow: In a page layout it is the short last lines of paragraphs that are usually unacceptable when separated from the rest of the paragraph by a column break and always unacceptable when separated by a page break.
Word wrap: In a word processor or text editor it is the automatic dropping of characters to the next line when the right hand margin is reached.
WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get): This is an interactive mode of computer processing in which there is a actual screen representation of the printed output. WYSIWYG is never completely accurate because of the difference in resolution between display screens and printers.
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