Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Exam Review

 For the Test:

From Week 1
Aldius Minutius (created the pocket book)
Gutenberg

Desktop Publishing in the 80's
Adobe Post Script: postscript , true type, open type

Type Anatomy
  4 Indicators: serif, xheight, contrast, stress
 (indicates type families)
know the 5 : Old Style (moderate), Modern,  etc

Types, fonts and variants
italic vs oblique

Week 3
hierarchy, typographic contrast
display type and body copy
legibility and readabilty
how many picas are in an inch (units of  measurement: points, picca, ems, pixels)
Mac 72.27 ppi

Week 4
alignments
spacing
first line indents
leading
paragraph indents
gutters
tracking
kerning

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