Typography
Categories of type
Effects of type
Readability and Legibility
Paragraph
100
Individual letters, numbers, punctuation marks or symbols are called?
What is.. Characters
100
French for "little feet"
What is.. Serif
100
Light-colored type on a dark background
What is.. Reverse type
100
Type 12 points and smaller
What is.. Body cop
100
A single word on the last line of a paragraph
What is.. Widow
200
The idea that type is a physical shape made up of a voice, character, theme and art.
What is.. Expressive typography
200
French for "without little feet"
What is.. Sans serif
200
Type that sits on a flat baseline but is set at any angle other than left to right and positioned straight across the document
What is.. Rotated type
200
14 points or larger in size
What is.. Display Type
200
A widow that begins at the top of a column
What is.. Orphan
300
How easily large bodies of text can be read
What is.. Readability
300
Text that has grayscale pixels around the edges of each character
What is.. Antialiasing
300
Application of a digital effect on type, such as an outer glow, drop shadow, bevel and emboss.
What is special effects
300
How quickly a short body of text is recognized
What is.. Legibility
300
relationship between objects that make them appear as if they belong together
What is.. Scale
400
Characters used singly or collectively to create words, sentences, paragraphs, blocks of copy, etc.
What is.. Type
400
A visual order arranged by thematic importance from dominate to subordinate.
What is.. Hierarchy
400
Type in which the baseline is anything other than straight
What is.. Type on a path
400
The use of mathematical instrucations to adjust the display of resolutions, hinting is critical for producing a clear, legible text
What is.. Hinting
400
The loudness or quietness of type
What is.. Voice
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