Around 2500 BCE, Egyptians began to make a new writing material derived from this plant.
What is Papyrus?
100
Tapered corners on the ends of the main stroke
What is serif?
100
The inclusive practice of removing barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to websites, by people with disabilities.
What is accessibility?
100
Produced single line of type to a predetermined length specified by the keyboard operator.
What is Linotype?
100
A set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization, or field. Create consistency.
What is a style sheet?
200
He invented movable type.
Who is Gutenberg?
200
From the French, meaning “without serif”. A typeface which has no serifs.
What is sans-serif?
200
Achieved by controlling the qualities and attributes inherent in typography that make type readable. These attributes make it possible for a reader to comprehend typographic forms with the least amount of difficulty.
What is legibility?
200
Composed of two parts: a keyboard and a typecaster, this machine casted 150 characters per minute and corrections could be made by changing individual letters instead of entire lines of text.
What is monotype?
200
The designer chooses typeface characteristics (serif, sans serif, extended, italic, etc.), and how the type is set (lowercase, all caps, size, color, etc.) to add meaning to a message. The type dose not move.
What is static typography?
300
An art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts. It operated from 1919 to 1933.
What is Bauhaus?
300
Line space between rows of type.
What is leading?
300
A skeletal framework used by designers to organize information within a spatial field.
What is a grid?
300
In 1950's two major types of phototypesetting systems were developed.
What are photo-optical and photo-scanning systems?
300
The designer determines how the type moves (pace, rhythm, with sound, etc.), relying on that action to communicate a mood, a context for the message, or a hierarchy of information
What is dynamic typography?
400
He is considered one of the most important American graphic designers of our era.
Who is David Carson?
400
Adjustment of the space between individual characters.
What is kerning?
400
A law of proportion frequently found in nature and the human body, and used throughout centuries in art, architecture, design, and music
What is a Golden Section?
400
In combination with the high-resolution cathode ray tube (CRT) and laser, this machine revolutionized the communications industry. (you use it every day)
What is a computer?
400
A technique used to smooth jagged edges.
What is antialiasing?
500
The first major book printed using mass-produced movable type.
What is The Gutenberg Bible?
500
The imaginary horizontal line to which the body, or main component, of characters are aligned.
What is baseline?
500
Layout used to place text in more than one column
What is multicolumn grid?
500
A single code base is used for all display sizes, simplifying the coding and unifying the design from device to device. The code reacts to your device.
What is responsive-design?
500
Designers use this to visualize a narrative and show how elements in a sequence will move and change.