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Miscellaneous
100
Type in this category often is used for newspaper banners.
What is Old English?
100
It is the number of points in an inch.
What is 72?
100
It can make type very difficult to read and is considered shouting on the Internet.
What is all caps?
100
It is a decoration at the end of a stroke.
What is a serif?
100
It is the adjustment of spacing between two letters.
What is kerning?
200
This typeface category looks like modern handwriting.
What is script?
200
It is the number of picas in an inch.
What is 6?
200
Sometimes called black letter or text, this type category resembles the handwriting style of the 1500s.
What is Old English?
200
It's similar to the blue line on notebook paper, and type rests upon it.
What is the baseline?
200
It is the adjustment of letter spacing among several selected characters.
What is tracking?
300
This category of type functions as a "catch-all" for typefaces that do not readily fall into other categories.
What is novelty?
300
This unit of measurement is used to measure leading.
What are points?
300
Older readers prefer this typeface for body copy.
What is roman?
300
The top of most lower-case letters extends to this imaginary line.
What is x-height, or waist height?
300
The vertical distance between lines of type.
What is leading?
400
It is what the "sans" in sans serif means.
What is "without"?
400
This print measurement often is used to measure the width of type. Six of this unit equal one inch.
What is a pica?
400
This category of type looks artistic and never should be used as body copy.
What is novelty?
400
It's the part of a character that extends below the baseline.
What is a descender?
400
This kind of type is large and similar to newspaper headlines.
What is display type?
500
This typeface category features rectangular serifs.
What is square serif?
500
This is the number of points in one-half of an inch.
What is 36?
500
This kind of typeface is called "clip art in a font" and is not used for reading.
What is a dingbat font?
500
It's the part of a character that extends above the x-height line.
What is an ascender?
500
It is a special ruler used to measure leading and the size of type.
What is an e-gauge, or graphic arts ruler?