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