Typography Questions

1.  In your own words, define Typography.

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2.  What is a Serif Font?

·         Reference:  http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/serif.html

3.  What is a Sans Serif Font?

·         Reference: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/sans_serif.html

4.  Describe the term Leading. Why is it called Leading?

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5.  What is the difference between Kerning and Tracking?

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6.  Who was Johann Gutenberg?
• What is he known for?
• Where is he from?
• When did he live?

·         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

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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?

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9.  What is the difference between a Bitmapped font and a Postscript font?

·         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.