Ascender
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This article is about ascenders in typography. For the font company, see Ascender Corporation. For the rope-climbing device, see Ascender (climbing). For the sports utility vehicle, see Isuzu Ascender.
In typography, an ascender is the portion of a letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. That is, the part of the letter that is taller than the font's x-height. Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. For this reason, British highway road signs that must be read quickly no longer use all capital letters.[1] References
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