TYPE DEFINED
TYPE AND ATTRIBUTES
EVEN MORE TYPE DEFINITIONS!
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE THROUGH!
IT JUST NEVER ENDS!!!
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The particular style and form of each letter of our alphabet is defined as this.
What is letterform?
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We call several font designs contributing a range of style variations based upon a single typeface design this.
What is type family?
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This pointed head is found at the top of letters.
What is an apex?
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This term comes from the days when these letters were kept in the lowest drawer of the typsetting area. It means the smaller set of letters.
What is lowercase?
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Light, medium and bold are examples of this.
What is weight, or type weight?
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Letters that are custom designed and executed by conventional drawing or by digital means.
What is lettering?
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Modifications in a typeface that create design variety while retaining the essential visual charter of the face. This term include variations in weight, (light, medium, bold), width (condensed, regular, extended), and angle (Roman, italic, or upright) as well as elaborations on the basic form (outline, shaded, decorated).
What is type style?
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You might be called this if you are strange or funny, but in typography it refers to a letterform, number, punctuation mark, or any single unit in a font.
What is a character?
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Sans (Latin for without) + this word = characters without "feet".
What is sans serif?
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These are the two basic units for measuring type.
What are points and picas?
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This is what we call letterforms produced by mechanical means.
What is type?
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This defines the height of lowercase ascenders.
What is the ascender line?
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This part of a lowercase letter "falls" below the baseline.
What is descender?
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You might cause Ms. Coy to have one of these if you do not know this term meaning a straight or curved line forming a letter.
What is a stroke?
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Choosing typeface that compliment one another, using contrasting styles, establishing harmonious size relationships, creating cooperative action between type and visuals and/or avoiding mixing more than two san serif fonts per design are all ways to create this.
What is unity?
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This is what we call the the design of a single set of letterforms, numerals, and signs unified by consistent visual properties.
What is typeface?
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The height of a lowercase letter, excluding the ascenders or descenders is known as this.
What is x-height?
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Not the mark on your forehead left after wearing a baseball hat that is too tight; this refers to the height of capital letters.
What is a capline?
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Where the plane is parked; what you might be called if you have an incurable disease, or in typography-the end stroke of a letter that does NOT end with a serif.
What is terminal?
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This size type (and lower) is used for body copy. Anything larger than this is used for titles, headers and subheades.
What is 14 pt type?
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A complete set of letterforms, numerals and signs in a particular face, size, and style is known as this.
What is type font?
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This defines the bottom of capital letters and of lowercase letters, excluding descenders.
What is the baseline?
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This is used to "tie things" together. In typography it links two or more letters together.
What is a ligature?
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These letters were stored in the top drawer in a typesetting area and refer to capital letters.
What is uppercase?
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This is the square of the point size of any type. It is a unit of measure based upon the "M" character.
What is an "em"?
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