1. In your own words, define Typography.
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Reference: http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/what-is-typography-123652
2. What is a Serif Font?
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Reference: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/serif.html
3. What is a Sans Serif Font?
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Reference: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/sans_serif.html
4. Describe the term Leading. Why is it called Leading?
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Reference: http://desktoppub.about.com/od/glossary/g/Leading.htm
5. What is the difference between Kerning and Tracking?
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Reference: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100107093532AAozk4X
6. Who was Johann Gutenberg?
• What is he known for?
• Where is he from?
• When did he live?
• What is he known for?
• Where is he from?
• When did he live?
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Reference: http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/gutenberg.html
7. Define these Elements of a Typeface:
• Decender
• Assender
• Bowl
• Foot
• Baseline
• Cap height
• X height
• Decender
• Assender
• Bowl
• Foot
• Baseline
• Cap height
• X height
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Reference: https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&q=define+descender&oq=define+descender&gs_l=serp.3..0j0i30j0i8i30.2190.15247.0.15611.18.17.1.0.0.0.346.3762.0j6j9j2.17.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.2.serp.7SKg9kSet7A&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=cf33e01e77288d5c&biw=1024&bih=648
8. Following the traditions of typography, when is it correct to use:
• all caps?
• a bold typeface?
• an italic style typeface?
• a serif typeface?
• a sans serif typeface?
• Script or Calligraphy typefaces?
• all caps?
• a bold typeface?
• an italic style typeface?
• a serif typeface?
• a sans serif typeface?
• Script or Calligraphy typefaces?
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9. What is the difference between a Bitmapped font and a Postscript font?
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Reference: http://narendra-npdezine.blogspot.ca/2011/01/what-is-difference-between-bitmap-fonts.html
ANSWERS:
1.
Typography
is where you can make different kind of pictures edit it and you can print it.
2.
Serif
font is semi-structural details on the end of some strokes and make different
kind of shape.
3.
Sans
serif font is typeface that does not have the small features.
4.
Leading
is where someone is leading you to something or lead you to somewhere.
5.
Kerning
is only between to characters and tracking is the spacing between letters in an entire
group or paragraph of text.
6.
He
was known for making the first printer, he was born in Germany and he live in the German city of
Mainz.
7.
Decender – it’s a part of a letter that extends below the level of its base
Assender- A person or thing that ascends.
Bowl – it’s a ball usually made
of composition material and slightly asymmetrical so that it runs on a curved course.
Foot - The lower extremity of the leg below the ankle.
Baseline – it’s a minimum starting point used for comparisons
Cap height - cap height refers to the height of a capital letter
above the baseline.
X height - the x-height or corpus size refers to the distance
between the baseline and the mean line.
8.
You
only use caps when you needed it, you use bold is when you want to see the word
in your picture,
9.
The benefit of Truetype
fonts is that all versions of Windows support TrueType fonts as a standard.
PostScript font technology makes it possible to scale fonts. Postscript’s
Scalability option allows all point sizes from that font to be created without
losing any font quality.
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