DES208 Type I Midterm

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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Futura

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What is the geometric font?

Futura

<p>Futura</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Bodoni

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What is the modern font?

Bodoni BQ

<p>Bodoni BQ</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Baskerville

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What is the transitional font?

Baskerville

<p>Baskerville</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Serifa

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What is the slab serif font?

Serifa

<p>Serifa</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Garamond

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What is the oldstyle font?

Garamond

<p>Garamond</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Helvetica

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What is the grotesk / neo-grotesk font?

Helvetica

<p>Helvetica</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Bodoni Poster

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What is the fat face font?

Bodoni Poster

<p>Bodoni Poster</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Univers

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What is the thin and condensed font?

Univers

<p>Univers</p>
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<p>Font?</p>

Font?

Gill sans

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What is the humanist font?

Gill sans

<p>Gill sans</p>
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What is a serif?

Small stroke attached to end of letter.

<p>Small stroke attached to end of letter.</p>
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What is a cap height?

Top line letters hit, typically uppercase or taller letters.

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Top line letters hit, typically uppercase or taller letters.</span></p>
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What is a x height?

Middle line, the height of the lowercase letters.

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Middle line, the height of the lowercase letters.</span></p>
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What is a baseline?

Invisible line where type sits on.

<p>Invisible line where type sits on.</p>
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What is a stem?

The primary vertical stroke.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">primary vertical stroke.</span></p>
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What is a bowl?

The curved or rounded in some way that encases or encloses a negative space.

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The curved or rounded in some way that encases or encloses a negative space.</span></p>
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What is a ligature?

The two or more letters combined by a line (ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl).

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The two or more letters combined by a line (ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl).</span></p>
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What is a descender?

The tails of letter forms.

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The tails of letter forms.</span></p>
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What is an ascender?

The upward vertical on a lowercase letter.

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The upward vertical on a lowercase letter.</span></p>
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What is the spine?

The main curve stroke, only seen in upper and lowercase s.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">main curve stroke, only seen in upper and lowercase s.</span></p>
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What is the crossbar?

The horizontal stroke in a letter form.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">horizontal stroke in a letter form.</span></p>
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What is the counter?

The negative/ open space within a letter.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">negative/ open space within a letter.</span></p>
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What is the tittle/ dot?

The floating part of an i.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">floating part of an i.</span></p>
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What is the terminal?

The end of a stroke that does not include a serif, decorative flourish that doesn’t look similar to the serifs.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">end of a stroke that does not include a serif, decorative flourish that doesn’t look similar to the serifs.</span></p>
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What is the finial?

The curved or tapered end of a stroke with no serif.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">curved or tapered end of a stroke with no serif.</span></p>
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What is small caps?

The Capital letters that only reach the x-height.

<p>The Capital letters that only reach the x-height.</p>
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When do you use a hyphen?

Hyphen is the shortest dash, it appears at the end of a line when a word breaks onto the next line. Also found in compound words.

<p>Hyphen is the shortest dash, it appears at the end of a line when a word breaks onto the next line. Also found in compound words.</p>
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When do you use an en dash?

En dash is the middle sized dash (length of a N), indicates a range of values (1880–1912, pages 33–68, Exhibits A–E).

<p>En dash is the middle sized dash (length of a N), indicates a range of values (1880–1912, pages 33–68, Exhibits A–E).</p>
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When do you use an em dash?

Em dash is the longest dash (length of a M), is used to make a break between parts of a sentence. Use it when a comma is too weak, but a colon and semicolon is too strong.

<p>Em dash is the longest dash (length of a M), is used to make a break between parts of a sentence. Use it when a comma is too weak, but a colon and semicolon is too strong.</p>
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What are Oldstyle Figures (in reference to numbers)?

Numbers that blend in with paragraph text because it has numbers that reach the x-height as well as having ascenders and descenders.

<p>Numbers that blend in with paragraph text because it has numbers that reach the x-height as well as having ascenders and descenders.</p>
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What is kerning?

It is the act of the adjustment of the letter space between two letter forms.

<p>It is the act of the adjustment of the letter space between two letter forms.</p>
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What is tracking?

It is the process of adjusting the spacing between all characters in a block of text.

<p>It is the process of adjusting the spacing between all characters in a block of text.</p>
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What is leading?

The distance from the baseline of one line of type to another.

<p>The distance from the baseline of one line of type to another.</p>
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What is fully justified?

The text that has even/ hard edges on both the left and right sides.

<p>The<span style="background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;text that has even/ hard edges on both the left and right sides.</span></p>
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What is flush left, rag right?

The flush side is the left side and the rag/ soft side is the right edge.

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The flush side is the left side and the rag/ soft side is the right edge.</span></p>
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What is flush right, rag left?

The flush side is the right side and the rag/ soft side is the left edge.

<p>The <span style="background-color: transparent;">flush side is the right side and the rag/ soft side is the left edge.</span></p>