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Hook

Hook

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Many terms are borrowed from architecture or human and animal anatomy to designate and describe parts of letters and other characters. We are even speaking of type design anatomy.

In the Latin script, the hook refers to the part curling downward in letters such as c, f, r, s, etc.

Depending on the style or the shape of this part, it can also be called an ear, an arch or a (upper) terminal.

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