Goal
This goal of this document is to establish the context for current course content.
Objective
Complete the Background Reading and define the Vocabulary specified below. Written, verbal and visual identification and utilization is required.
Background Reading
- Bringhurst, p 1–24.
- Dabner, p 62–91
- Kane, p 1–73.
Vocabulary
- Alignment
- Anatomy
- Baseline
- Centered
- Contrast
- Earmark
- Egyptian or Slab Serif
- Font
- Geometric Sans Serif
- Hierarchy
- Humanist Old Style Serif
- Humanist Sans Serif
- Hyphenation
- Justification
- Justified
- Kerning
- Leading
- Letterspacing or Tracking
- Linguistic
- Measure
- Modern Serif
- Optical adjustment
- Ornaments
- Panels
- Pica
- Point size
- Ranged (flush) left or right
- Sans serif
- Semantics
- Serif
- Stress/axis
- Syntax
- Transitional Serif
- Typeface
- Typographic Rules
- x‑height
- Apex
- Arm
- Ascender
- Barb
- Beak
- Boldface
- Bowl
- Bracket
- Cap height
- Condensed
- Counter
- Cross Bar
- Cross Stroke
- Crotch
- Descender
- Dingbats
- Ear
- Em
- En
- Extended
- Finial
- Italic
- Leg
- Ligature
- Light
- Link
- Loop
- Lowercase
- Lowercase (non-lining) numerals
- Median
- Pica
- Point size
- Points
- Punctuation
- Roman
- Shoulder
- Small Capitals
- Spine
- Spur
- Stem
- Stress
- Stroke
- Swash
- Tail
- Terminal
- Type family
- Uppercase
- Uppercase (lining) numerals
- Vertex
- Set Width
- Blackletter
- Italic
- Modern
- Oldstyle
- Sans Serif
- Script
- Semi-serif
- Square Serif
- Transitional
Bibliography
Bringhurst, Robert, The Elements of Typographic Style. 3rd Edition, Hartley and Marks Publishers: 2005. ISBN-10: 0881792063; ISBN-13: 978–0881792065
Dabner, David; The New Graphic Design School; John Wiley & Sons Inc; Fourth Ed, 2009; ISBN-10: 0470466510 ISBN-13: 978–0470466513
Kane, John; A Type Primer;Prentice Hall. 2003. ISBN-10: 013099071X; ISBN-13: 978–0130990716
Kane, John; A Type Primer; Lawrence King; 2nd Revised edition: 2011; ISBN-10: 1856696448; ISBN-13: 978–1856696449