Speaking from experience,Anatomy of type,

After fully deciding on a concept to push forward for this brief, I went back to basics and started looking at the anatomy of type. I know I had difficulty getting my head to grips with all the terminoligy, even today I couldn't reel off more than half of the names used within typography. It is my hope to not only produce a graphical response to help future students, but also reinforce my knowledge in the process.

These are a few images i found browsing google for 'anatomy of type'

In the last example, the term 'pylon' has been used to describe the missing areas of a stencil typeface.