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In typography, an 'ascender' is the portion of a letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font. That is, the part of the letter that is taller than the font's x-height.
Ascenders, together with descenders, increase the recognizability of words. For this reason, British highway road signs that must be read quickly no longer use all capital letters.^[1]

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1. Sampson, Geoffrey. ''Writing Systems: A linguistic introduction'', pp. 94–95. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-8047-1254-9.