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unbracketed serif

A serif joined to the main stroke at a sharp angle.

underscore

A rule set beneath a passage of text.

Unicode

A multilingual typographic character-identification scheme and international standard that assigns numbers to specific characters. It is used as the basis of both TrueType and OpenType fonts and has assigned unique ID numbers to over 100,000 characters, ideograms, and linguistic symbols.

unshift

The keyboard setting that allows the typing of lowercase characters.

up style

A capitalization style for display type in which every major word is capitalized. Also called headline style.

uppercase

The capital letters in a typeface. Also called majuscules.