# ascender

> portion of a minuscule letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font or script

**Wikidata**: [Q518371](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518371)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_(typography))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ascender-q518371-2


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013