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8-point type
Answer for the clue "8-point type ", 7 letters:
brevier
Word definitions for brevier in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context typography printing dated English) The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brevier \Bre*vier"\ (br[-e]*v[=e]r"), n. [Prob. from being originally used in printing a breviary. See Breviary .] (Print.) A size of type between bourgeois and minion. Note: This line is printed in brevier type.
Usage examples of brevier.
He was walking by the hedge, reading, I think a brevier book with, I doubt not, a witty letter in it from Glycera or Chloe to keep the page.
The One-volume edition will be printed from a new fount of Brevier Ancient type, on toned paper, and will be the most compact and readable edition of Shakespeare ever issued in a single volume.