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24. What is a “Heavy/Light” weighting of letters?
One is bolder and other is thinner
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23. What is negative space?
Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.
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22. What is the difference between lettering and typography?
Calligraphy is the art of writing letters and is related to the idea of penmanship.Calligraphy is more likely than lettering to be used in longer written pieces. Typography is a repeated system of letters. It's the style and appearance of a printed material or the art of arranging type.
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21. What is a baseline grid?
A baseline grid is a series of invisible vertical units that can be used to create consistent vertical spacing with your typography and page elements. It is an invisible way of giving order to disorder. Why use a baseline grid.
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What is uppercase and lowercase?
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case and smaller lower case in the written representation of certain languages.
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19. What is a widow and what is an orphan?
A "widow" is the last line of a paragraph that appears alone at the top of the next page, and an "orphan" is the first line of a paragraph that appears alone at the bottom of a page. Default widow and orphan settings are typically configured for two lines in order to prevent isolated single lines.
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What is a ligature?
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph. An example is the character æ as used in English, in which the letters a and e are joined. The common ampersand developed from a ligature in which the handwritten Latin letters e and t were combined.
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16. What is is a dingbat?
In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, character, or spacer used in typesetting, often employed for the creation of box frames (similar to box-drawing characters).
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15. What is a monospaced font?
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with variable-width fonts, where the letters and spacings have different widths.
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14. What is “point-size”, how do you measure it?
Point size measures from the height of the highest ascender (peak) to the baseline of the lowercase x. It then measures from the lowest descender (valley) of the font to the top of the lowercase x.
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13. What is a slab serif?
In typography, a slab serif typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular, or rounded. Slab serifs were invented in and most popular during the nineteenth century. Slab serifs form a large and varied genre.
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12. What is an em-dash?
An em is simply the horizontal measure exactly corresponding to the type size.
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11. What is Leading?
In typography, leading is the space between adjacent lines of type; the exact definition varies. In hand typesetting, leading is the thin strips of lead that were inserted between lines of type in the composing stick to increase the vertical distance between them.
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9. What is a drop cap?
A drop cap is the where the first character of the first paragraph is made larger, taking up several lines of text or the first few sentences. Drop caps are used in various media, including books, newspaper articles, documents, and webpages. Drop caps are used to add style or grab a reader's attention.
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8. What is x-height?
The x-height refers to the distance between the baseline and the top of the lower case line in a typeface. Typically, this is the height of the letter x in the font (the source of the term). The x-height is a relative measure of typeface, so different typefaces set in the same point size may appear differently.
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7. What is point size?
In typography, the point is the smallest unit of measure. It is used for measuring font size, leading, and other items on a printed page.
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6. What are ascenders and descenders?
An ascender is the part of a letter that extends above the x-height, as in the letter “f”. The descender is the part of a lowercase letter that extends below the baseline, as in the letter “y”. The baseline is the line on which the typeface sits.
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