Quiz 1 Flashcards

(34 cards)

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Refers to the design of the characters and they way they are presented on the page

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Typography

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A controversial practice that studies handwriting to interpret personality, traits, emotion and behavior

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Graphology

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3
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What was the first printed book in the 1450’s

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Gutenberg book

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4
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He was responsible for the development of the first full Roman typefaces

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Nicholas Jenson

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5
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He’s a French Publisher who is credited with the introduction of apostrophe

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Claude Garamond

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6
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What do call the small decorative pieces on the end of the character

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Serif

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This typefaces are usually in magazine headlines and websites

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Sans Serif

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It is a type of spacing which takes up the same amount of space regardless of its character

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Monospaced

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What do you call the vertical spacing between lines of text

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Leading

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10
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Horizontal spacing between all of characters in a large block of text

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Tracking

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It refers to the available character in a font, from letters to numbers

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Glyphs

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What do you call a specific style, size, and weight of text used in digital and printed media

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Font

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Fonts that resemble handwriting or cursive, often used for decorative purposes

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Script

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It is a group of related fonts with consistent design features (Arial Regular, Arial Bold, Arial Italic

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Font Family

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15
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Is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible readable, and visually appealing when displayed

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Typography

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16
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(True or False) Serif fonts are generally considered more readable for long text passages than sans-serifs fonts

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(True or False) Leading refers to the horizontal space between individual characters

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(True or False) Kerning adjusts the space between all characters in a line of text at once

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(True or False) Sans-serif fonts are commonly used in digital interfaces due to their simplicity and legibility

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(True or False) A typeface and a font are exactly the same thing

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(True or False) Helvetica is an example of a serif font

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(True or False) Script fonts are typically used for formal or decorative purposes rather than for body text

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(True or False) Tracking adjusts the spacing between characters evenly across a whole word, line, or paragraph

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(True or False) The baseline is the invisible line on which text characters sit

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(True or False) Monospaced fonts allocate different width for each character based on size
False
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(True or False) A "ligature" is a single character created by jointing two or more letters
True
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(True or False) A justified alignment creates equal spacing between all words in a line of text
True
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(True or False) The font size of 12pt is always the same physical size regardless of the font used
False
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(True or False) A type hierarchy helps guide the reader's eye through a document by creating levels of importance in the text
True
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(True or False) Contrast between typefaces has little impact on readability and is mostly for aesthetic purposes
False
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What are the different categories of Typefaces
Serif Sans Serif Slab Serif Script Display Monospace Handwriting
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The different types of Font Styles
Bold Underline Italic Shadow Small caps Outline
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Different types of Typeface spacing
Propotional Monospaced Leading Kerning Tracking
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Different types of tracking
Loose tracking Tight tracking