Glossaries

• 【同】vertex 1, apex 2

• =vertex 1, apex 2

In typography, the part of a letter or other character where two stems meet at the bottom of the character, as in the points of a capital letter "W."
 
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The opposite of an apex―or the bottom junction of two stems―is the vortex.
 
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The bottom junction of two stems, as in the letter V.
 
Eckersley, Richard. Ellerston, Charles M. Hendel, Richard. Pascal, Naomi B. Scott, Anita Walker. Glossary of Typesetting Terms. The University of Chicago Press, 1995, 184p. (p.111)

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