Odjective 101 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Typography | the art or process of printing with type. |
Typeface | The style or design of a font. |
Serif | a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M. |
Examples of serif | ALDUS, ALEXANDRIA, ASTER |
Serif used for: | Serif fonts are usually easier to read in printed works than sans-serif fonts |
Sans Serif | a style of printer's typeface in which the characters have no serifs. |
Examples of sans serif: | Arial, bell gothic, calibri |
Sans serif used for: | sans-serif fonts are used for headlines rather than for body text |
Ornamental/ decorative | serving or intended as an ornament; decorative. |
Examples of ornamental/ decorative | They have the most distinctive designs of all fonts, and may even incorporate pictures of objects, animals, etc. into the character designs. |
Ornamental/ decorative used for: | They usually have very specific characteristics (e.g., evoking the Wild West, Christmas, horror films, etc.) and hence very limited uses |
Script | handwriting as distinct from print; written characters. |
Examples of script | professional paper work like senoir project |
Script used For: | professional papers |
Font | is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. |
Font style | Stylistic variations of a font, such as italics, underline, bold, and so on. In CSS, it refers solely to the italic state of the font. |
Font Family | In typography, a typeface is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features |
Monospaced | A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. |
Proportional | corresponding in size or amount to something else |
Leading | most important. |
Kerning | space between individual letter forms |
Tracking | spacing uniformly over a range of characters. |
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