DMT 102-01 Type ?
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| What does gothic font category look like? | Black letters like on Christmas cards.
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| Which is easier to read on paper San Serif or Serif? | Serif.
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| What are serifs? | They are tails on edge/ends of letters.
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| What is the x height of a font? | It is the height of a lower case x.
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| What is a type family? | Reg. Italics, bold and bold italics, ect. of the font type. Ex. Ariel regular, arial italics, ariel bold, ariel bold italics, extended and condenced.
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| How do you measure font size of type? | Top of the ascender to the bottom of the descender.
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| Where are the ascenders and descenders f letters? | the part above and below the x height.
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| Where is the baseline of a letter? | The line that all the letters rest on.
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| What is the Egyptian type classification and why is it called Egyptian? | Slab Serif, popular font when Egyptian tombs were being discovered.
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| What do you use to measure type? | points.
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| Where is the mean line in type anatomy? | Top of x height.
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| Which is older Serif or San Serif? | Serif.
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| How many points to an inch? | 72ppi.
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| What is the difference between Serif and San Serif? | The Serifs ('feet').
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| When do we use all caps? | Hardly ever, to hard to read.
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| Are all x heights of all fonts the same size? | No, they vary by fonts.
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| What did the first printed fonts look like? | Gothic blackletter like handwriting of the scribes/monks of that time.
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| What is one theory of the origin of Serifs on type? | Roman chisels and brush strokes on letters.
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