Fonts and Typography Understanding Fonts 4

Question 1

What does 'tracking' adjust compared to kerning?

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Uniform spacing across a range of characters, not specific pairs

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Only the space between two letters

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The line height

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The font weight

Question 2

The 'cap height' of a font measures what?

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The height of capital letters from the baseline

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The height of lowercase letters

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The space above a capital

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The width of a capital M

Question 3

Which term refers to the part of a letter that extends below the baseline?

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Descender

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Ascender

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Bowl

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Crossbar

Question 4

What is a 'glyph'?

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A single visual representation of a character

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A complete font family

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The spacing between words

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A type of serif

Question 5

A 'condensed' font variant differs how from the regular version?

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Its letters are narrower, fitting more text per line

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Its strokes are thicker

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Its letters are slanted

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It has additional serifs

Question 6

What does 'point size' traditionally measure?

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The vertical size of the font, with 72 points per inch

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The width of each letter

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The number of letters in the font

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The thickness of the strokes

Question 7

Which pairing principle is generally recommended for combining fonts in a design?

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Pair contrasting fonts, such as a serif heading with a sans-serif body

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Use two nearly identical serif fonts

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Always use four or more different fonts

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Match two display fonts together