Tittle: Understanding Typography Terms
![[image] A tittle is the dot above a lowercase j or i.](http://daniellebaird.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tittle-typography-01-1.jpg)
Definition:
tittle : the dot over i or j
Example Sentence:
Make sure you tittle your i’s and cross your t’s.
Origin:
Tittle comes from the Latin titulus, which originally meant “title.” Titulus came to refer to marks such as the abbreviated form of n written over a vowel (like the Spanish tilde, which indirectly got its name from titulus), and then to any mark above a letter.