Vertex" src="http://typographydeconstructed.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/vertex-white.gif" alt="Vertex" width="190" height="190" />The outside point at the bottom or top of a character where two strokes meet.

A point (as of an angle, polygon, polyhedron, graph, or network) that terminates a line or curve or comprises the intersection of two or more lines or curves.