typography

Question 1

words and symbols in any form, spoken, or written, are the most common system of communication

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Text

Question 2

used in most multimedia applications

Answer 2

text

Question 3

___ can be combined with other media in a ____ and ____ way to present information and express moods

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text
powerful
meaningful

Question 4

the easiest to manipulate

Answer 4

text

Question 5

text can be captured in ?

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keyboard
mouse
scanner (OCR) - optical character recognition

Question 6

text elements can be categorizes into?

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alphabets a-z
number 0-9
special characters . , : ; “ ‘
symbols @#$&*

Question 7

a type of formatted text that enables a related set of documents, normally referred to as pages, to be created which have defined linkage points, referred to as hyperlinks, between each other

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hypertext

Question 8

another type of hot word used to save space.

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pop-up messages

Question 9

gives the user a set of choices and reduces his strain of decision making. that is making choice in an easier way and limited according to the systems capabilities.

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drop-down boxes

Question 10

mostly irritates the user. important messages should not be posted using this, since the user may not notice it.

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scroll bars/scrolling text

Question 11

change in appearance by using a button with text to glow on it rather than using a hyper text

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navigation/buttons for interaction

Question 12

concentrated text in the form of stand alone graphic constructs. convey meaningful messages. need to be learn and advice to use a standard symbol

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text as graphics/symbols and icons

Question 13

it is style or appearance of text

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typography

Question 14

it is the art of working with text

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typography

Question 15

collection of characters of different sizes and styles of a typeface

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font

Question 16

also called typeface. it is a graphic representation or the shape of characters

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fontface

Question 17

a family of related fonts

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typeface

Question 18

typically represented in points (pt). The distance from the top of the capital letters to the bottom of the descenders

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font size

Question 19

refers to whether text is bold, italicized, underline, or any combination of the 3. Refers to particular style of textual characters

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font styles

Question 20

the line on which the bases of characters are arranged

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baseline

Question 21

the distance between the baseline and the top of a lower-case letter x

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x-height

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the distance between the baseline and the top of a capital letter

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cap-height

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stroke that rise above the x-height

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ascenders

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strokes that drop below the baseline

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descenders

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body size

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point size

Question 26

used to guide the reader's eye to whatever is most important using different level of emphasis

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hierarchy

Question 27

the distance between successive baselines

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leading

Question 28

leading is also known as

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line spacing

Question 29

overall space between characters. sometimes called character spacing

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tracking

Question 30

adjustment of space between certain pairs of letters to make them more uniform. it is a space between specific character

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kerning

Question 31

upper and lower kerning

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cases

Question 32

exactly matched kerning (example: password)

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case sensitive

Question 33

characters have a little "flag" or decoration at the end of the letter stroke

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serif

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characters that dont have flags or decorations

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sans serif

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used to decorate, embellish, and beautify a text.

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display/decorative font

Question 36

specifying which font to be substitution

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font mapping

Question 37

the arrangement of text relative to a margin

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paragraph alignment

Question 38

4 types of alignment

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flush left flush right centered justified

Question 39

also known as ragged right. default style of text alignment on the WWW

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flush left

Question 40

also known as ragged left. used to set off special text in english, such as attributions to authors of quotes printed books and magazines, and is often used when formatting tables of data

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flush right

Question 41

text aligned neither left or right, there is an even gap the the end of each line. often used for title, poems, or songs. often used to present data in tables

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centered

Question 42

text is aligned alomg the left margin, and letter - and word-spacing is adjusted so that the text falls flush with the right margin. aka full justification

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justified