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Question 1

Factors that affect the legibility of text are

Answer 1

1. Size and style
2. Background and foreground colours
3. leading

Question 2

what’s a glyph

Answer 2

this is the graphical representation of a character’s shape where a character can be represented by many shapes.

Question 3

Typeface

Answer 3

this is a collection of many characters with many type sizes and styles.

Question 4

a font

Answer 4

this is the collection of a character or glyphs of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family.

Question 5

categories of fonts

Answer 5

1. serif fonts; examples are Times New Roman, Bookman and Bodoni
2. Sans serif; examples are arial, verdana, avant garde
3. decorative fonts abang

Question 6

spacing

Answer 6

The space between character pairs is known as kerning and that between lines is known as leading.

Question 7

Selecting Text Fonts

Answer 7

1. Choose a font that is legible and easy to read
2. Different effects and colors of a font can be chosen to make the text look distinctive
3. try to use few different colours inside the same presentation
4. use few typefaces within the same presentation.
5. incase of text in links like in websites, the text can be highlighted.
   the concept of using the many fonts in a single document is known as ransom-not topography

Question 8

Using text in multimedia

Answer 8

text is the fundametal element of multimedia. using other forms of media will reduce the amount of text that is displayed in the multimedia. it can be used in text messaging, advertisements, in a website, in films such as titles and credits, as subtitles in a film.

Question 9

Using Text elements in a multimedia presentation

Answer 9

1. Menus for Navigation; a user will navigate through content using a menu, and a simple menu consist of a text list of topics
2. Interactive Buttons; a button is a clickable object, that executes a command when activated.
3. html documents
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Question 10

Website Loading Speed

Answer 10

a website that contains a lot of text will load faster than one containing; internal code not placed in external css, js files and linked to, alot of images and graphics, audio and video clips.

Question 11

Significance of tText Based Advertising

Answer 11

1. The text ads are inexpensive, thus making it affordable and effective for your business.
2. Few websites request for a onetime payment to plave your text ads
3. it helps to improve your search engine ranking
4. since more trafic is drawn, it increases the ranking of your site.

Question 12

Font Editing and Design Tools

Answer 12

1. Fontographer; this is a powerful font editor supplied by Macromedia, specialised in editing graphics for both Macintosh and windows platforms. you can use it to develop Postscript, truetype and bitmapped fonts for macintosh, windows, DOS. Designers can also modify existing typefaces, trace scanned images and create designs from scratch.
2. Font Monger; from ares software ensures that fonts will look good regardless of size. it allows you to edit and expand the fot of small caps, oblique, suband superscripts characters. it converts Macintosh fonts to PC or the other way round as well as between Postscript type 1, type 3 and true type formats.
3. Restedit
4. font chameleon