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Sign in to savethumb|390px|Descenders are parts of a character that lie below the baseline.|class=skin-invert-image In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a grapheme that extends below the baseline of a font.
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thumb|390px|Descenders are parts of a character that lie below the baseline.|class=skin-invert-image In typography and handwriting, a descender is the portion of a grapheme that extends below the baseline of a font.
For example, in the letter y, the descender is the "tail", or that portion of the diagonal line which lies below the v created by the two lines converging. In the letter p, it is the stem reaching down past the ɒ.
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