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In typography and graphic production, the line on which most letters sit is the baseline. It serves as the reference for aligning all characters on a line, so up-and-down positioning of letters can be measured consistently across an entire block of text. Ascenders are the parts of letters that rise above this line (like the tall portion of a lowercase b or d), while descenders extend below it (like the tail of a lowercase g or p). The term measure refers to the horizontal length or width of a block of text, not the alignment line itself. So the imaginary baseline line is the baseline.