Intro to Graphic Design Quiz 6

Characters designed to all have the same width, ignoring their normal proportions. Wide characters have an unusually narrow design, while narrow characters have lots of white space on both sides. This allows for neatly setting columns of text and tables, for example in programming code, accounting, etc.

• Monospaced
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

Letter spacing and word-spacing are used to jadjust lines of type so that the lines are equal in length. This results in blocks of type with even left and right margins.

• Justify
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

Every character in a typeface, (e.g: G, $, ?, and 7), is represented by a glyph. One single type design may contain more than one glyph for each character. These are usually referred to as alternates.

• Glyphs
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

Any letter, numeral, punctuation mark, and other sign included in a font. Some characters can be represented by more than one glyph.

• Character
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

A typeface that is intended for use at large sizes for titles, headings, pull quotes, and other eye-catching elements, rather than for extended passages of body text.

• Display
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

A typeface designed without serifs. These faces often have lower stroke contrast and larger x-heights than serifs.

• Sans Serif
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

A typeface with the little extra stroke found at the end of main vertical and horizontal strokes of some letterforms.

• Serif
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

A typesetting technique that involves closing up space between certain characters in the alphabet to improve the appearance and readability of the word. Normally done for letters that are top or bottom heavy.

• Kerning
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

The space between multiple lines of type. measured from baseline (the imaginary line upon which a line of text rests) to baseline.

• Leading
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font

A feature of computer typesetting that allows you to control the letter and word spacing together.

• Tracking
• Typography
• Ascender
• Descender
• Font