leaded type
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[edit] Noun
leaded type (plural leaded types)
- (uncountable) Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to make the text appear with greater emphasis.
- A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste." (Wm. Cowper Brann, Brann The Iconoclast Vol. 1, published 1919)
- (uncountable) Printed type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents.
- There, in leaded type, was the article before him. It seemed, somehow, much more important on the printed page than it had looked in the proof. (Robert Barr, A Woman Intervenes, 1896)
The use of the term in both senses is generally obsolete.
