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| a family of characters that include many sizes and stlyes (Example: Times, Helvetica, Courier) |
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| a collection of characters of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family (ex. Times 12-point italic) |
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| underlining and outlining characters |
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| Type sizes are generally expressed in points which is |
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| the distance fromt he top of the capital letters to the bottom of the descenders in letters such as g and y |
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| space below the descender (letters like y or g) and sometimes above. (space between one line and the next) |
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| the general measurments applied to individual characters |
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| the spacing between character pairs |
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| the space between individual characters |
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| placing an uppercase letter in the middle of a word |
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| the little "feet" hanging off letters (Times New Roman) |
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| text without the little feet (Arial, Veranda, Helvetica) |
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| What type of text is serif fonts generally used for? |
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| Body text because it helps guide the readers eyes across the line of the text. |
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| San Serif is generally used for.. |
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| headings and bold statements |
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| What you see is what you get |
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| using too many different fonts on the same page |
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| blends the colors along the edges of the letters (called dithering) to create a soft transition between the letter and its background |
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| is and effect used in anti-aliasing. It blends the colors along the edges of the letters |
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| not smoothed around edges |
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| Text links are also known as |
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| cascading style sheet (CSS) |
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| A method of page layout in HTML that offers detailed control of the text and other styles (a separate file that defines that attributes of text displayed on a webpage) |
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| are used in HTML they are the < > that frame your command |
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| uses cascading style sheets to define choices? |
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| What is a problem that may arise if you anti-alieace a font on a light background and then copy and paste it onto a dark background |
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| The "smoothing" pixels that blend the text into the background will copy over with the text. As a result, the dark background will make he text outline visible. |
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| the jagged edges of alienaced text |
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| a place where typefaces are created |
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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)??? Ask- how in depth we need to know this |
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| the character coding system most commonly used by computer systems in the U.S. (numbers are code for letters)? |
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| a byte contains how many bits? |
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| worldwide effort to include the characters from all known languages ad alphabets in a standards-based methodology for display and printing |
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| used by unicode to describe the shared symbols of a language unified into a collection of symbols |
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| the idea that if you move your project to another platform and the text isn't on the computer you must subtitute the font for one that the target computer has |
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| specifying an appropriate matching font when crossing platforms |
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| when crossing platforms, the characters must match too. sometimes people turn the image into a bitmap and bring it over that way they avoid font and character issues. the bad thing is it cannot be edited once it's a bitmap |
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| Adobe's PostScript (1985) |
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| page description and outline font language by Apple. It changed print quality and allowed for Laser printers. It was much faster than the old method of printing |
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| a method of describing an image using mathematical constructs (Bezier Curves). Because each PostScript character is a mathematical formula, it can easily be scaled to larger or smaller sizes and still look good |
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| What are the 2 types of PostScript fonts? |
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Type 3: the older one and was developed for output to printers
Type 1: there are over 6,000 different types of type 1 typefaces. Type 1 fonts also include "hints"- special instructions for grid-fitting to help improve resolution. Hints can apply to a font in general or to specific characters at a particular resolution |
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| An outline font method thatcame out after PostScript and was made by a joint effort between Apple and Microsoft. |
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| Post Script and Typeface prevent..? |
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| translating or designing multimedia (or any computer-based material) into a language other than the one in which it was origionally written. |
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| the characters that make up an alphabet recognizable to web browsers according to the ISO-Latin-1 standards. They are indicated by a word or numbers prefixed by an ampersand and followed by a semi-colon |
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