Individual letters, numbers, punctuation marks, or symbols
What is Characters?
100
Enclosed space or the hollow of a letter
What is a counter?
100
Characters that vary in thickness/thinnes, have a finishing stroke that projects from the top or bottom of the main stroke of the character and include stress
What is Serif (Roman)?
100
How quickly a short body of text is recognized.
What is Legibility
100
The space between lines of type measured from baseline to baseline
What is Leading
200
The idea that type is a physical shape made up of a voice, character, theme and art
What is Expressive Typography?
200
Downward stroke that extends below the baseline of the letters - g, j, p, q, y
What is a descender?
200
Characters that are uniform in thickness and do not contain finishing strokes
What is Sans Serif?
200
Type 12 points or smaller
What is Body Copy
200
The distance between the beginning and ending of a line of type or the width of a column
What is Line Length
300
How easily large bodies of text can be read
What is Readability?
300
Upward stroke that rises above the x-height of the letters - b,d, f, h, k, l, t
What is an ascender?
300
Characters that look like hand-lettering in a variety of forms such as calligraphy, blackletter, drafting and cartoon; in many instances the letters are connected and slant to the right
What is Script?
300
Type 14 points or larger in size
What is Display Type
300
A single word on the last line of a paragraph
What is a Widow
400
Characters used singly or collectively to create words, sentences, paragraphs, blocks of copy, etc.
What is Type?
400
Height of a lowercase letter excluding the ascenders and descenders; distance between the mean line and baseline
What is x-height?
400
Characters that are usually ornamental
What is Decorative?
400
Text that has grayscale pixels around the edges of each character; there may be hundreds of grayscale colors but you only need to use six colors of gray, which leaves text readable but has smaller file size
What is Antialiasing
400
A large or decorative letter at the beginning of a paragraph
What is Drop Cap
500
The art and science of working with type
What is Typography?
500
Height of capital letters
What is cap height?
500
Type commonly known as gothic or text
What is blackletter?
500
The use of mathematical instructions to adjust the display of an outline font so that it lines up with a rasterized grid; at low screen resolutions it is critical for producing a clear, legible text.
What is Hinting
500
A decorative typographic character such as a bullet or star