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- En tipografía y escritura a mano, una letra volada, voladita o superior es una letra, normalmente minúscula, emplazada sobre la línea de base del renglón y cuyo cuerpo es inferior al ordinario. No debe confundirse con el superíndice, utilizado para notaciones matemáticas. Antaño comunes en las abreviaturas creadas por contracción, su propósito original era distinguir claramente las abreviaturas manuscritas del resto de las palabras. Hodierno, el uso moderno de los procesadores de textos y las interfaces de entrada de texto han implicado la pérdida de la distinción entre volado y superíndice. Con el advenimiento de la imprenta, se forjaron tipos especiales para hacer posible su aparición en los impresos, aunque no todas las letras contaban con versión volada (el tipógrafo Alexander W. White en su libro Thinking in Type afirma que en francés y en español solo se utilizan doce letras corrientemente: ª, ᵇ, ᵈ, ᵉ, ⁱ, ˡ, ᵐ, ⁿ, º, ʳ, ˢ y ᵗ). Hoy sigue siendo habitual su utilización en lenguas neolatinas tales como el castellano, el francés, el italiano y el portugués; en inglés ha menguado su presencia. (es)
- In typography and handwriting, a superior letter is a lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script. The style has traditionally been distinct from superscript. Formerly quite common in abbreviations, the original purpose was to make handwritten abbreviations clearly distinct from normal words. These could also be used to enable the important words on signs to be larger. In technical terms, the superior letter can also be called the superscripted minuscule letter. In modern usage, with word processors and text entry interfaces, superscript and superior letters are produced in the same way and look identical, and their distinction would refer to their usage and not to their form. With the coming of printing, pieces of type were cast to enable them to appear in print. These are still commonly used in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, though their appearance in English has diminished. Not every letter in the alphabet has a piece of type cast for it as a superior letter. In the book Thinking in Type, by , it is stated that there are only twelve superior letters used in French and Spanish: a, b, d, e, i, l, m, n, o, r, s, and t. However, a few other superior letters are also used those languages, for example in English, h is also sometimes rendered as a superior letter, or in French, superior g is used in some abbreviations (See below). (en)
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- En tipografía y escritura a mano, una letra volada, voladita o superior es una letra, normalmente minúscula, emplazada sobre la línea de base del renglón y cuyo cuerpo es inferior al ordinario. No debe confundirse con el superíndice, utilizado para notaciones matemáticas. Antaño comunes en las abreviaturas creadas por contracción, su propósito original era distinguir claramente las abreviaturas manuscritas del resto de las palabras. Hodierno, el uso moderno de los procesadores de textos y las interfaces de entrada de texto han implicado la pérdida de la distinción entre volado y superíndice. (es)
- In typography and handwriting, a superior letter is a lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script. The style has traditionally been distinct from superscript. Formerly quite common in abbreviations, the original purpose was to make handwritten abbreviations clearly distinct from normal words. These could also be used to enable the important words on signs to be larger. In technical terms, the superior letter can also be called the superscripted minuscule letter. In modern usage, with word processors and text entry interfaces, superscript and superior letters are produced in the same way and look identical, and their distinction would refer to their usage and not to their form. (en)
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