Meanline Typography. The main stroke in a letterform which is often vertical or diagonal. An imaginary line that runs along the top of most lowercase characters.
An imaginary line upon which the characters seem to be standing. The meanline falls at the top of many lowercase letters such as e g and y. In typography the mean line also and more simply known as midline is the line that determines where non ascending imaginary line running along the top of non ascending lowercase letters.
The main stroke in a letterform which is often vertical or diagonal.
You go wrong if you go by the literal definition of the term mean line because it actually doesn t imply the central line between the baseline and the cap height. A rounded shape will appear visually smaller than flat topped or bottomed shapes of equal height due to an optical illusion. An imaginary line upon which the characters seem to be standing. A hy phen ap pears at the end of a line when a word breaks onto the next line.
