Job Font—A small assortment of type. ([11])

Job Type—The kinds used for miscellaneous work, usually in small fonts, in distinction from book type, body letter, etc.

Kerned Types—Those which have a small part of the face projecting over the body. ([18])

Laying Type—Putting a font of type into cases.

Leaders—Dots or short dashes placed at intervals in open lines to guide the eye, as in indexes, price-lists, etc. They are cast like quads for sizes of type most used. Leaders are also made of brass.

Letter—Sometimes this word is used to mean type. Letter-press printing, that done with type. Letter foundry, a type foundry.

Lining Type—The exact alignment at top or bottom of the face on a type-body. ([16-18])

Linotype—A machine for casting type in solid lines. ([23])

Long Primer—An old size of type nearly equal to 10-point. ([15])

Low-to-paper—Said of a type when it does not come up to the height of its mates; opposite of high-to-paper. ([7])