09 Typography

Question 1

What is a serif font?

Answer 1

A serif font has little flourishes at the ends of individual glyphs.

Question 2

What is a sans-serif font?

Answer 2

A sans-serif font does not have the little flourishes at the ends of individual glyphs. Sans is french for without.

Question 3

A font with little flourishes at the ends of individual glyphs is known as what?

Answer 3

A serif font.

Question 4

A font without little flourishes at the ends of individual glyphs is known as what?

Answer 4

A sans-serif font.

Question 5

Italic is?

Answer 5

A style of lettering where the letters slant to the right, in true Italic versions the letters have been redesigned.

Question 6

Oblique is?

Answer 6

The type is just slanted, typical of most sans serif fonts (but not all).

Question 7

Name different considerations for typography.

Answer 7

Serif, sans-serif, italic, oblique, bold, normal, light, upper case, lower case, width between letters (condensed or wide), justification (right, centre, left)

Question 8

What do gothic fonts connote?

Answer 8

Tradition and history.

Question 9

What do serif fonts connote?

Answer 9

Elegance and tradition but not as old as gothic fonts.

Question 10

What do sans-serif fonts connote?

Answer 10

Modernism, cleanliness and professionalism.

Question 11

What do grudge or distressed fonts connote?

Answer 11

Disruption and uneasiness.

Question 12

Where are grudge or distressed fonts used?

Answer 12

Often in the horror genre.

Question 13

What do script (handwritten) fonts connote?

Answer 13

That they have been written by a real person or that something has been handmade.

Question 14

What do decorative fonts connote?

Answer 14

Can connote silliness and comedy depending on text decor.

Question 15

What does hand lettering connote?

Answer 15

Authentic, craft based, artistic, individual (hipster).

Question 16

Tradition and history is the connotation for what type of font?

Answer 16

Gothic.

Question 17

Elegance and tradition is the connotation for what type of font?

Answer 17

Serif fonts.

Question 18

Modernism, cleanliness and professionalism is the connotation for what type of font?

Answer 18

Sans-serif fonts.

Question 19

Disruption and uneasiness is the connotation for what type of font?

Answer 19

Grudge or distressed.

Question 20

Fonts that connote that they have been written by a real person or that something has been handmade are called what?

Answer 20

Script fonts.

Question 21

Silliness and comedy can be the connotation for what type of font?

Answer 21

Decorative.

Question 22

Fonts that connote authenticity, craftiness, artistic, individualism (hipster) are known as what?

Answer 22

Hand lettering.