Go Get eM
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Historical Type
Letter's Anatomy
100

An eM space is divided into this many sections for kerning and tracking purposes.

What is 1000?

100

When executed in inDesign, this shortcut reveals hidden characters.

What is Command+Option+I?

100

Also known as a type foundry, these organizations work almost exclusively with typography.

What is a type house?

100

The general character form makes it easy to fabricate this category of typeface.

What is Old Style?

100

This term refers to the main stroke of an "S".

What is spine?

200

This unit is exactly half of an eM space.

What is an eN space?

200

This type of punctuation is produced with the keys Option+Shift+[.

What is an opening quotation mark?

200

Helvetica is an example of one of these overall designs; often mistakenly called a font.

What is a typeface?

200

This category of typeface began to reflect fashion and taste.

What is Modern?

200

The vertical stroke on a lowercase "b" is an example of what type of stroke?

What is an ascender?

300

This glyph's length is the same as the eM and indicates a parenthetical sentence break; represented by shift+option+- on the keyboard.

What is the eM dash?

300

Inside inDesign, this key combination will manually adjust kerning between pair of letters.

What is Option+arrows?

300

This is a range of typeface designs created to be used in conjunction with each other.

What is a type family?

300

This typeface category consists of perfectly uniform strokes, and was a staple in the Bauhaus movement.

What is San Serif?

300

The horizontal stroke in a lowercase "n" is this piece of typographical anatomy.

What is the shoulder?

400

This amount of eMs is a good starting point to determine the correct leading for on screen text content.

What is 1.5 eMs?

400

This formatting style is applied in inDesign with the shortcut Command+Shift+L.

What is flush left rag right alignment?

400

Bold and italic are examples of these variations of a typeface.

What is a type style?

400

John Baskerville's typefaces fit into this historical category.

What is Transitional?

400

The three unique characteristics of the lowercase letter "g" include its link, loop, and this short offshoot.

What is the ear?

500

An eM is always equal to this measure of type.

What is point size?

500

One would use this inDesign shortcut if they are looking to open the text frame options dialogue box.

What is Command+B?

500

This term refers to the art and technique of arranging type.

What is typography?

500

This typeface category was reflective of the popular and historic artifact style of its time; and had serifs approximately the same width as the strokes.

What is Egyptian (or Slab Serif)?

500

The whitespace inside the uppercase letter "Q" is an example of this typographical feature.

What is the counter?