The lowercase character stroke which extends below the baseline.
What is Descender?
100
The earliest example of type with larger x-height,
diagonal stress and abrupt transitions from thick to thin strokes
What is Old Style
100
Tapered corners on the ends of the main stroke. Serifs originated with the chiseled guides made by ancient stonecutters as they lettered monuments.
What are Serifs?
100
A complete set of a specific type in one size and style (Arial, 12pt.)
What is font?
200
Inventor of mechanical movable type printing
Who is Gutenberg?
200
Tapered corners on the ends of the main stroke
What are Serifs?
200
Developed during 1700s and has a more mechanical appearance, has sever transitions from thick to thin strokes,
vertical stress and serifs that are horizontal hairlines
What is Modern type?
200
From the French, meaning “without serif”.
What is Sans serif?
200
It evolved from handwriting, which is created by making a series of marks by hand; therefore, the fundamental element constructing a letterform is the linear stroke.
What is Typography?
300
Was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933
What is Bauhaus?
300
The curved stroke which surrounds a counter.
What is Bowl?
300
Type with some varied contrast in width, has curves with some squareness with curling and close-set jaw
What is Grotesque type?
300
The thickness of the letter
What is weight?
300
He became the first to produce and sell typefaces to other printers.
Who is Garamond?
400
Twentieth-century, American graphic designer best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography
Who is David Carson?
400
The height of the body, minus ascenders and descenders, which is equal to the height of the lowercase ‘x’.
What is an x-height?
400
Used for emphasis
What is Italic?
400
This feature of type can be left-angled, vertical or right-angled
What is stress?
400
Software that made the high-resolution font designs on desktop computers possible
What is Fontographer?
500
Carson designed a spread on musician Bryan Ferry,
but when he read the content he found it
boring and not worth reading. As a solution he used this font
What are Zapf Dingbats?
500
The bottom part of the lowercase roman ‘g’.
What is a Loop?
500
Category of type with thick squared serifs, subtle difference between thick and thin strokes where the stress of the curved strokes is minimal
What is Egyptian or Slab Serif?
500
The letter can be expanded, normal or condensed
What is type width?
500
A widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.