Type color
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Type color is a typographic term referring to the weight or boldness (or lack of boldness) of a font. It is such called because type color affects the amount of black on the page. "Black" fonts are bold and heavy.
The term ‘type colour’ should not be confused with our usual meaning of colour i.e. red, yellow, blue, etc; it is rather the term used by designers and typographers to describe the visual tone of a mass of text on a page. In essence it refers to the overall balance of type to white space.
Type colour is affected by a number of elements including font weight (light/regular/bold), letter spacing (normal/condensed), line space (leading).