Fonts and Typography Understanding Fonts 2

Question 1

What is the difference between a typeface and a font?

Accepted Answer

A typeface is the design family; a font is a specific style, weight, and size of it

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They are identical terms

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A font is the design family; a typeface is one size

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A typeface only refers to bold text

Question 2

Which font category is generally considered most readable for long printed body text?

Accepted Answer

Serif

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Display

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Script

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Blackletter

Question 3

What does 'kerning' adjust?

Accepted Answer

Spacing between specific pairs of letters

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The height of capital letters

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The vertical space between lines

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The overall stroke thickness

Question 4

A 'monospaced' font is characterized by what feature?

Accepted Answer

Every character occupies the same horizontal width

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It has no serifs

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It is always bold

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It uses only uppercase letters

Question 5

What is 'leading' in typography?

Accepted Answer

The vertical spacing between lines of text

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The space before a paragraph

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The first letter of a paragraph

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The width of a character

Question 6

Which term describes the imaginary line on which most letters sit?

Accepted Answer

Baseline

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X-height

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Ascender

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Cap height

Question 7

What is the 'x-height' of a typeface?

Accepted Answer

The height of lowercase letters without ascenders or descenders

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The height of capital letters

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The total height of the tallest glyph

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The width of the letter x