Beard Line?!

I’m sure everyone has an inside joke that no one outside of your major will understand.

But I think I’ve found one that tops them all.

And it’s called:

Beard Line!

What’s a beard line?  It’s a typography term used to describe the bottom of a character that goes below the blue line on a sheet of notebook paper (or the descender).  Such as the bottom of the “p”.

I guess you could say that the descending line is like a beard falling from the face.  Other than that, I don’t know why they call it that.  All the rest of the terms make sense!  Just not beard line…

Haha, beard line.