Typography exam question bank 2

In plain TEX code groups are enclosed within...

\- parentheses

\- square brackets

\- braces

\- percent signs

braces

Which is not a character ligature?

\- W

\- 1

\- þ

\- %

þ

Which of the following statements is false?

An italic font may contain glyphs that are always cursive.

Which typeface was among the first bold styles?

\- Bembo

\- Helvetica

\- Times New Roman

\- Clarendon

\

Clarendon

TrueType fonts were first developed by:

\- Apple & Microsoft

\- Linotype

\- Adobe

\- Monotype

Apple & Microsoft (they developed against Adobe’s high-cost licensing of Type 1 fonts)

In an European book, which page carries an even page number?

the verso

METAFONT is related to which typesetting system?

TEX and LATEX

In which case is negative leading handy?

\- when the point size is very small

\- in the case of a text with many diacritics

\- when a text is typeset with many descending glyphs

\- in the case of titles set in all capitals

in the case of titles set in all capitals

Which is true of “expert” font sets?

word processors may have hyphenation problems with them

What is wrong with this sentence? He said “she went to school in the ‘80- ‘90s.”

the direction of the apostrophe before the digits

Which of the following is part of the front matter in an English book?

copyright notice

What is the difference between a bibliography and a reference list?

A reference list contains only documents explicitly referred to.

Which person can be associated with the Neoclassical typeface style?

John Baskerville

Which is a slab serif type?

Rockwell

Which should have an en-dash?

a) a 2-year-old dog

b) -12C

c) Bill Clinton 1992-2000

only c. → Bill Clinton 1992-2000

Which of the following font styles have hypermodulated strokes?

Romantic/Didone type

For large, complex documents with scientific text (maths formulas), it is recommended to use...

non-WYSIWYG typesetting systems, like TEX / LATEX.

Which is a stylistic ligature?

ffi

Out of the following four, which is the heaviest font weight?

\- black

\- book

\- Demibold

\- fat

fat

Which digital font format is drawn from an array of dots?

bitmap fonts

Which of the following glyphs has a vertex? V-Y-G-a

V

Who is the author of the typesetting system TEX?

Donald Knuth

What is scriptio continua?

text without interword spaces

If you had to design information signposts (i.e., station names for the subway, direction signs, etc.), which of the following typefaces is the most recommended for such a purpose?

HELVETICA

Subsetting embedded fonts in PDF files is useful for…

inhibiting full font extraction from PDF files.

What is a drop cap?

the first letter of a paragraph set in a larger size fitting within the margins

...refers to the reader’s ability to easily recognize letterforms and the word forms built form them.

Legibility

Which of the following is most likely to contain a blind folio?

a page where a chapter begins

The ... is a space grid that is available for the design work of glyphs in digital font design.

em square

Seriffed letters were typical of

ancient Roman letters.

Which are the font parameters along which typefaces vary?

family, style, shape, weight, width, and size

Which string does not contain a stylistic ligature?

Himfy

Which diagramme represents the historical development of note types?

marginal note < footnote < endnote

What kind of ligatures existed before the invention of the printing press?

character ligatures only

Where should a publisher turn to for an ISBN or ISSN?

the National Széchényi Library (OSZK)

What is typographically wrong in the following example: “The word vér ‘blood’ contains a voiced labiodentals approximant.”

The linguistic data is not italicized

Which statement is true?

WYSIWYG technology does not encourage users to specify document structure.

Which command must be the very first in the source of a LATEX document?

\\end{document}

Which item exemplifies a serial (or Oxford, or Harvard) comma?

1) apples and pears, pins and needles

2) apples, pears and kiwis

3) apples, pears, and kiwis

4) none of the above

3) apples, pears, and kiwis

What is wrong with the following definition of tracking: “The measure of the overall spacing between characters in a passage of text.”

nothing

Which number is the ISBN of a book published in Hungary?

963 9166 68 5

Which word contains a tilde?

Assunção

Arial resembles which font the most?

HELVETICA

Why are usually newspapers typographically problematic?

large type size and narrow columns create colour and readability problems

Which should have an em-dash?

a) pages 22—28

b) Donald—the duck

c) the suffix —ing

b) Donald—the duck

Which paper size is common in the USA and Canada?

letter size

Which of the following statements is true?

The first mention of technical terms can be set in small caps

The caron has more than one glyphs. Which is not a caron?

ğ

In the font name Univers ‘Condensed’, ‘Condensed’ refers to font

width

Which is typically not alphabetized?

\- the glossary

\- the contents

\- the subject index

\- the bibliography

the contents

Anti-aliasing refers to…

the addition of gray pixels at the edges of glyph outlines to make them more legible at low screen resolutions.

Which of the following is most unlikely to contain a blind folio?

- the title page

\- the appendix

\- the half title

\- the copyright page

the appendix

In Hungary, in the colophon the length of a book is given in…

A/5 PRESS SHEETS

Which word contains an ogonek?

Walęsa

Monospaced fonts…

have all their glyphs in a bounding box with the same width.

Kerning refers to…

the targeted adjustments of space between specific glyph pairs.

What is the recommended setting of the abbreviation for the word “personal computer”?

small cap

One of the following does not characterize the TEX / LATEX typesetting system. Which one?

they contain automated ligature and kerning algorithms (?) (Q27 - DSC4046)

The typeface on the right is classified as...

Romantic/Modern →

If the page proportion is 1: ϕ (golden ratio), it produces

narrow pages

Which writing system is considered to be the basis of the Greek and Roman alphabets?

Phoenician

What is “font I.D. conflict”?

When there are two or more fonts with the same identity number on a computer system

Which of these sizes is optimal for setting text for chapter titles in a regular document?

“display” size

Seriffed letters were introduced by…

the Romans

Which of the following persons is credited with the first purely Renaissance Roman typeface?

1) Nicolas Jenson

2) Giambattista Bodoni

3) Johannes Gutenberg

4) Robert Slimbach

Nicolas Jenson

Which is not a lowercase-uppercase pair?

1) ť\~Ť

2) ð\~Đ

3) đ\~Đ

4) ø\~0

**4) ø~0**

The capital is rounder!! The capital letter is NOT a slashed zero!! “the slash of a slashed zero usually does not extend past the ellipse (except in hasty handwriting).” /Wikipedia/

→ BUT the slash of the capital DOES extend!!

Which was the first punctuation mark in European writing?

the interpunct

In an European book, which page carries an EVEN page number?

the verso

Which of the following refers to solid leading?

\- 12/14.5 pt

\- 12/10 pt

\- 122/12 pt

\- 13/20 pt

12/10 pt

...fonts acquired the name ‘Egyptian’ due to England’s preoccupation with the archaeological discoveries taking place simultaneously in Egypt.

\- Serif

\- Sans Serif

\- Slab Serif

\- Woodtype

Slab serif

If you had to typeset a book on neoclassical architecture (like the “federal” style of the USA), which of the following typefaces would you employ in order to be the most historically “faithful” to this art period?

\- Garamond

\- Caslon

\- Baskerville

\- Centaur

Baskerville

What is font metrics?

1) the optimal size of a font for a given measure

2) data about the glyphs in a digital font (e.g., width, kerning, position of the baseline, ascender, x-height etc.)

3) the collective term for typographical units

4) the collective name of the four traditional point size series (caption, text, subhead, display)

2) data about the glyphs in a digital font (e.g., width, kerning, position of the baseline, ascender, x-height etc.)

What is a widow line?

the last line of a paragraph with a page/column break right before it

One of the attributes below does not belong to the secondary font features. Which one?

\- style

\- size

\- shape

\- width

style

What is an expert set font?

A companion font set that contains special ligatures, true small caps, old style digits, etc.

Which of the following is true of the ISO “A” series of paper size?

Each folding produces the same proportion.

Which of the following is false concerning movable type?

1) Gutenberg’s 42-Line Bible was printed with it.

2) It is an invention attributed to Nicolas Jenson.

3) Each character is cast in lead so that it can be used multiple times.

4) It is a printing invention developed in the 15th century.

2) It is an invention attributed to Nicolas Jenson.

When several master designs are created for a typeface at various point sizes, they are also called...

\- relative sizes

\- optical sizes

\- absolute sizes

\- optimal sizes

optical sizes

Which is not a character ligature?

\- ß

\- æ

\- &

\- Q

Q

Which is a false statement?

1) Parentheses inherit the style of the text they enclose.

2) Punctuation marks after a word in italic are also italic.

3) A suffix normally inherits the font style of its stem in English typography.

4) The plus sign (+) is not normally italicized within an italic text.

A suffix normally inherits the font style of its stem in English typography

Which typeface style has been very popular in mathematical typesetting?

1) Renaissance types, like Garamond

2) “geometrical” types, like Futura

3) “Modern” types, such as Computer Modern and Bodoni

4) Mannerist types, like the typefaces of Robert Granjon

3) “Modern” types, such as Computer Modern and Bodoni

A(n) ... is an exaggerated gap in the shape of a letter that is created with the assumption that the gap will plig with ink.

\- ink well

\- descender

\- slab serif

\- ascender

ink well

Which is the right weight sequence?

thin < light < regular < demibold < heavy < black

Which of the following is considered to mark the beginning of written language?

\- phonogram

\- ideograph

\- syllabary

\- pictograph

pictograph

When a digital font is not linked to any particular type of printer or computer operating system, it is said to be...

1) a raster image processor

2) bitmap

3) device independent

4) pixel independent

device independent

How many styles has a basic but full font family got?

\- only one

\- 2

\- 4

\- in modern digital fonts, basic families must have more than 4 styles

4

Which of these measures usually affects the “subjective” size of a font the most?

\- the baselineskip

\- the set width

\- the bounding box

\- the x height

the x height

In which case is hanging indentation least usual?

\- footnotes

\- reference lists

\- first paragraph of a section

\- dictionary entries

first paragraph of a section

Which of the following is the most suitable for beamer presentations?

\- TNR

\- Futura

\- Didot-type fonts

\- Verdana

Verdana

The original Palatino was designed by..

Hermann Zapf

Which typographic style was the first to introduce a heavy application of stylistic ligatures?

Mannerism

How can we identify fake small caps (from true small caps)? Fake small caps…

have narrower vertical strokes

Realist letterforms...

usually have oblique italics.

The stretch and shrink maximum, a limit set by typesetting programs within which word spacing looks OK, is called…

tolerance

Text colour depends on


1. the design of the typeface
2. vertical spacing (leading)
3. horizontal spacing (letter and word spacing)
4. all of the above

\

all of the above

What is considered to be the optimal number of characters in a line in a single column textblock?

1) 20-30

2) 40-50

3) 60-70

4) 90-100

60-70 (the ideal number is 66)

Which is the odd one out?

\- dieresis

\- trema

\- umlaut

\- caret

caret (the other 3 marks the SAME glyph: Ä)

What is the difference between B5 and B/5?

1) B5 refers to trimmed stock size, B/5 is a standard stock size

2) B5 refers to trimmed stock size, B/5 is a standard textblock size

3) B/5 refers to trimmed stock size, B5 is a standard block size

4) nothing, they are just notational variants

B/5 refers to trimmed stock size, B5 is a standard block size

Which of the following styles fits “humanities” texts (e.g., on literature, history) the most?

\- Bodoni type

\- Renaissance

\- Futura-type

\- capital quadrata

Renaissance