Typography Vocabulary POST Quiz (P2)

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What is leading? *

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Naturally, it's the horizontal distance between characters.

The space before or after a paragraph.

The vertical distance between baselines of type.

The individual letter spacing designed into a typeface’s character pairs.

And kerning is? *

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Using fractional leading to even out columns of text.

Adding or subtracting white space equally amongst all characters.

Manually adjusting the individual spaces between letter pairs for legibility.

Adding or subtracting space between words to make text fit.

What’s a font? *

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A historical reference to a typographer’s job case.

The style of the characters in a latin alphabet.

The delivery mechanism for letterforms.

A set of type of one particular face and size. (like the family first names)

What’s a typeface? *

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The system used to deliver the characters.

Your facial expression after staring at a computer screen for eight hours.

The amount of space a typeset text will occupy.

The design of the letterforms. (like the family last name)

Serif typefaces have tails

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What’s tracking? *

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Adding or subtracting white space equally amongst all characters in a word, line, or paragraph.

The arrangement of words in a headline.

Manually adjusting the space between letter pairs for legibility.

The overall legibility of a page.

"Sans" means without

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How is a vector image different from a rasterized image? *

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A vector image is based on lines and curves, whereas a raster image is pixel-based.

You can use them interchangeably at any size.

A vector image is always better quality.

Vectors are used only for screen devices and rasterized images are used for print.

What does the term “x height” refer to? *

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The vertical measure of a paragraph made up of 10 lines of 10-point text set on 12-point leading.

The horizontal compression of a condensed typeface.

The relative width of the letter x in a typeface as compared to other letters.

The height of a lowercase character, usually the x, from the baseline to the top of character.

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