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flexography
Relief printing using a flexible rubber printing surface. The image is raised above the rest of the surface, as with an ordinary letterpress. Flexography allows printing on curved objects such as beer cans.

flush cover
A book cover that is trimmed flush with the pages of text.

flush left ragged right
Text that is aligned on the left margin is said to be flush left. If the text is unaligned on the right, so that it has a ragged edge, it is said to be flush left ragged right. The term ragged right is sometimes used alone to mean the same thing.

flush right ragged left
Text that is aligned on the right margin is said to be flush right and, if unaligned on the left, is said to be set flush right ragged left. The term ragged left is sometimes used alone to mean the same thing.

font
One style, weight, and width of a typeface. An example is Times roman bold extended. Times is a typeface family, roman is a style, bold is a weight, extended is a width. The terms font and typeface tend to be used interchangeably.

font contrast
Font contrast refers to the range of thickness of the strokes used to draw a font's characters. Helvetica has low contrast, for example, because the letters are drawn with strokes of uniform thickness. Bodoni, on the other hand, has high contrast.

font family
Also called a type face family. A collection of similar fonts designed to be used together. The Garamond family, for example, includes roman and italic styles, several weights (regular, semi bold, and bold), and several widths (extended and compressed).

fountain
The supply of ink for a lithographic press. Sometimes also the supply of dampening solution.