Test 2

Question 1

What is an arm

Answer 1

The horizontal stroke of type

Question 2

What is the ascender

Answer 2

The part of a lowercase letter that extends above the x height

Question 3

What is a bar

Answer 3

The horizontal stroke in A H e t and similar letters

Question 4

What is the bowl

Answer 4

A curved stroke which makes an enclosed space within the character. PBRgdbpqa

Question 5

What is the counter form

Answer 5

Whitespace around and inside the letters.

Question 6

What is the ear

Answer 6

The small stroke projecting from the top of a lowercase g

Question 7

What is the Hairline

Answer 7

The Thin stroke usually common in serif typeface.

Question 8

What is the link

Answer 8

The stroke connecting the top and bottom of the lowercase g

Question 9

What is the loop

Answer 9

The lower portion of a lowercase g

Question 10

What is the serif

Answer 10

A line crossing the main strokes of a character

Question 11

What is the Descender

Answer 11

The part of a lowercase letter that is lower then the x height

Question 12

What is the shoulder

Answer 12

The curved stroke of the hmn

Question 13

What is the spine

Answer 13

The main curve of a s

Question 14

What is the spur

Answer 14

A small projection off a main stroke. Found on many capital G’s

Question 15

What is the stem

Answer 15

A straight vertical stroke or the main diagonal stroke of a letter with no vertical strokes

Question 16

Stress

Answer 16

The direction of thickening in a curved stroke

Question 17

Stroke

Answer 17

The diagonal stroke in a letter

Question 18

Junction

Answer 18

The point at which two or more letter forms meet together

Question 19

Leg

Answer 19

The downward angled stroke that is attached on one end and is free on the other.

Question 20

Foot

Answer 20

The end of a stroke that rests on the baseline

Question 21

Tail

Answer 21

The descender of a Q

Question 22

Terminal

Answer 22

The end of a stroke that is not terminated with a serif

Question 23

X hight

Answer 23

The hight of the lowercase letters excluding the ascenders and descenders

Question 24

Love

Answer 24

A bulb shaped terminal stroke

Question 25

Swash

Answer 25

Fancy flourish replacing terminal or serif

Question 26

Lining figures

Answer 26

The hight of capital letters aligned at the baseline

Question 27

Oldstyle figure

Answer 27

Varying heights in a fashion that resembles running text

Question 28

Distinguishing characteristics of true itailics

Answer 28

A slanted typeface that does not have the characteristics of its roman counterpart resembles cursive

Question 29

Oblique

Answer 29

Slanted roman type

Question 30

True small caps

Answer 30

Same height and stroke of lowercase letters

Question 31

""

Answer 31

Inch marks

Question 32

“”

Answer 32

Quotation marks

Question 33

How many points in an inch

Answer 33

72

Question 34

How many picas in an inch

Answer 34

6

Question 35

How many points in a pica

Answer 35

12

Question 36

Kerning

Answer 36

To adjust the space between letters

Question 37

Leading

Answer 37

To adjust the space in between lines

Question 38

Word spacing

Answer 38

Defines additional space between words

Question 39

Letter spacing

Answer 39

Usually called tracking a consistent degree of increase of increase or decrease of space between letters.

Question 40

What are ligatures

Answer 40

Two or more letters joined in a single glyph

Question 41

Alternate

Answer 41

A different character the designer has designed to go with the font to give it more variety

Question 42

Readability

Answer 42

The ease at which the reader can recognize words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Question 43

Legibility

Answer 43

The ease at which a reader can recognize individual letters.

Question 44

Justified

Answer 44

Alignment method edges are even on both edges. Pros: clean compact shape on the page Cons: can be ugly spaces, rivers, to much hyphenation making it hard to read

Question 45

Centered

Answer 45

Type of alignment. Uses: invitations, certificates and tomb stones. Cons: can break rhythm of text making it hard to read.

Question 46

Flush left ragged right | FLRR

Answer 46

Alignment. Left edge hard and right edge soft. Pros: even word space, no big holes, Cons: be careful of a bad rag and to much hyphenation Try to make it look random and organic

Question 47

FRRL

Answer 47

Alignment. Cons: hard to read Effective for: marginal notes, sidebars, pull quotes, or other passages that comment on a larger body or image

Question 48

Differentiation

Answer 48

Used to emphasis a section of text. Typographic hierarchy. How: size, weight, color, position, type contrast These methods can be combined. Spacing matters.

Question 49

Optimum pt size

Answer 49

11 pts

Question 50

Leading

Answer 50

Optical. Long ascenders and descenders = less leading | Shorter ascenders and descenders = more leading

Question 51

Drop cap

Answer 51

The first letter or word drop at least four lines down in a paragraph

Question 52

Complementary typeface

Answer 52

A typeface That works well with another

Question 53

Small caps

Answer 53

Used in the begging of chapters and for acronyms in running text

Question 54

Indent

Answer 54

When the first line of a paragraph goes in

Question 55

Hanging indent

Answer 55

Hangs out into the margins. Opposite of indent.

Question 56

Ornamentation

Answer 56

Used instead of indents to break up a paragraph. Think pilcrow

Question 57

Sub heads

Answer 57

Needs to be closer to the text it goes with. No indent afterwards.