Anatomy of Typography

What is a Descender in typography?

• The part of some letters above the baseline.

• The part of some letters below the baseline.

• The part of the letter above the height.

• The part of the letter on the baseline.

Font is sized in...

• points

• u's

• inches

• millimeters

It's marked half the distance between the baseline and cap height:

• Baseline

• Cap Height

• Meanline

• X Height

The imaginary line on which letters seems to be sitting.

• Baseline

• The Thin Red Line

• Cap height

• Clothes Line

The capital letters of the alphabet:

• Typeface

• Typestyle

• Uppercase

• Lowercase

People over 25 need a font size greater than.....

• 9

• 10

• 11

• 12

The imaginary line that runs along the top of most lowercase letters, such as i, c, e, m, n, u,v, w and x

• Baseline

• Lowercase

• Cap Height

• Meanline

The part of letters such as “h” and “k” that goes above the x-height of lower case letters?

• Ascender
• Descender
• Cap-height
• x-height

The imaginary line that runs across the top of capital letters

• Cap Height

• Baseline

• X Height

• Z Height

The arrow is pointing to what part of the type?

• Cap Height
• Descender
• X-Height
• Baseline