The ascenders are the parts of the characters that lie above the midline.

In typography, an ascender is the portion of a letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, Type design, and modifying type Glyphs Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety In Typography, a grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. In Typography, the mean line, also (and more simply known as midline, is the line that determines where non- ascending lowercase In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises That is, the part of the letter that is taller than the font's x-height. In Typography, the x-height or corpus size refers to the distance between the baseline and the Mean line in a Typeface.

Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. Typography, a descender is the portion of a letter in a Latin alphabet that extends below the baseline of a font. For this reason, British highway road signs that must be read quickly no longer use all capital letters. Capital letters or majuscules pronunciation /məˈdʒʌskyuls ˈmædʒəˌskyuls/ in the Roman alphabet A, B, C, D, ^[1]

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