Type info
Terminology
Letters
Type-o-rama
Type anatomy
Grab bag
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100
Helvetica is this classification
What is Neo-grotesque
100
The word, sitting alone, at the end of a paragraph
What is a widow
100
The spacing between letters
What is Kerning?
100
Used to separate dates or ranges of time.
What is an en dash
100
The indicated area in an s
What is the spine?
100
Page that we saw in the Cary with Amelia
What is the Gutenberg Bible?
100
An invisible line that the type sets on.
What is a baseline?
200
A typographical technique where the opening quotation mark is pushed slightly into the left margin to create a straighter, more uniform vertical line on the left edge of a block of text
What are hanging quotes?
200
This alignment is called by what term?
What is flush left or ragged right
200
The global spacing to a word or phrase
What is tracking?
200
These indicate what and are called what?
What are inches and feet and called prime marks
200
The part of the lower case g that no other letter has
What is the ear?
200
Indicated by the red line
What is rag
200
The feet on a letter
What is a serif?
300
The height of the lead block the type was set in, back in the days of metal type.
What is Point Size?
300
Putting things in order of viewing using contrast of size, color, weight
What is hierarchy
300
Two letters that are designed to fit together, like fi or fl
What is a ligature?
300
The number of words per line, as a general rule of thumb.
What is 10?
300
The part of a letter that goes below the baseline
What is an overshoot?
300
Style of type that we never set in all caps
What is script
300
Parts of letters that go above the x-height and below the baseline
What are ascenders and descenders?
400
Garamond is this classificiation
What is Old-style
400
The common lines to align up all type so it is all even
What is a baseline grid
400
These are called? (not apostrophe or quotes)
What are smart quotes
400
The feature in InDesign to create continuity and cohesion in our layouts
What are style sheets?
400
The end of a stroke in a letterform that does not have a serif
What is a terminal?
400
A structure to build your layouts on to ensure consistent alignment and spacing
What is a grid?
400
Calligrapher and typographer who used to teach at RIT
Who is Hermann Zapf?
500
Classification based on shapes like circles and squares?
What is Geometric sans serif?
500
Lining up text to be a common vertical
What are hanging bullets?
500
Is not necessarily the same from typeface to typeface, even if they are the same point size.
What is the x-height?
500
The maximum range of characters per line
What is 60-65
500
The area indicated
What is the counter?
500
Designer of Helvetica
Who is Max Miedinger
500
Frutiger is this classification
What is Humanist?
600
Classification that has a large contrast between thick and thin
What is Modern serif?
600
The areas indicated in justified type
What are rivers?
600
Classification of where the serif and stems are the same thickness
What is slab serif?
600
Times New Roman is this classification
What is Transitional?
600
the end of a stroke in a letterform that does not have a serif
What is a terminal?
600
1/8th of an inch is the industry standard
What is the bleed?
600
Designer of Curlz
Who is Steve Matteson?