_ What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph.
scale, color, indentations...
_ What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text.
that you dont have odd separations and have at least two letters pre hyphenation
from type to font
_ Define font hinting. Why is necessary?
is the use of mathematical instructions to adjust the display of an outline font so that it lines up with a rasterized grid. aesthetic purposes
_ What is letterspacing/tracking? How do you track in Illustrator or InDesign
_ Define Kerning? Name 8 kerning pairs. How do you kern in InDesign or Illustrator?
is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Wa To Ya AV ry LT QU ch manually
_ try the kerning game (link). how did you do?
_ What is wordspacing?
refers to the size of the space between words
Typographic Recommendations and Referenced
_ Explain DIN.
_ Explain DIN.
an acronym for the German Deutsches Institut für Normung(German Institute for Standardization), and the name of an increasingly large realist sans-serif typeface family.
The grid in Baseline is composed of 4 basic columns, for more flexibility each column can be divided in 2 units
_ How many characters per line is optimal? Is there a range?
45 -75 yep there is a range
_ Define aesthetic text alignment (optically hanging punctuation).
mercy of text rendering, sizing, and window space all at the discretion of the viewer.
_ What is a typographic river?
are gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.
_ What is a widow?
A widow is a line that begins a paragraph and is abandoned at the bottom of a page.
_ what is an orphan?
It is a single line at the top of a page which finishes a paragraph that was contained on the previous page
