Describing type

Typeface & Font

• A type face is a set of groups that are each composed of glyphs which share common design features. Example of typeface font is Times New Roman and example of Font is Times New Roman Italics.

Upper case & Lower case

• Upper case letter which means Capital letters are put like this ‘TEXT’ and For lower case letters ‘text’ is just normal size,

Numerals

• Letters that represent numbers such as:• I = 1 V = 5 X= 10 L = 50

Glyph

• Glyphs are symbols such as Question Mark ? , Exclamation mark ! , Ampersand & , Asterisk * , Commercial ‘At’ Symbol , bullet point.

Point size leading

• In a solid set of words the point size is set to a 12- point type and is the default size in word processing

• Leading is where there is space between the lines of the letters.

Alignment styles

• Alignment styles is where you change where the text is placed such as set left which places at the left of the page same with flush left, Ragged set right, flush right, ragged left centered.

Kerning

• Kerning is the separation between each letter from being close to wide apart.

Tracking

• Tracking is used to space out the letters out at once where as kerning is changing one letter at a time.

Dingbats

• Dingbats is using letters that transforms into symbols for example: