The following is an assessment to measure your understanding of typography. You can answer the question as many times as you want. If you get it right your score for that question will be perfect. If you get it wrong your score will drop each time you select the wrong answer.
Combining all fonts and typestyles of a given typeface; such as, italic and bold is called...
Type Classification
Type Family
Typeface
Font
What is the x-height?
The tallest letter in a word.
The lowercase letter that falls between the baseline and the meanline.
The area below the baselline.
The area above the meanline.
An individual letter is called a...
Figure
Font
Counter
Character
Sans Serif letters have...
no end strokes.
thin end strokes.
have thick end strokes.
angled end strokes.
The space entirely closed within a letter (e.g. P) is called a...
ligature
regular
figure
counter
True or False. Uppercase type is as easy to read as lowercase type.
True
False
Legibility of type refers to...
how type is arranged on a page.
the white space that is on the page.
the ability to easily distinguish letterforms from one another.
the space between the lines in a paragraph.
Display type is generally what size.
Only 16 Point
14 Point and Below
16 Point and Above
Only 20 Point
Adjusting the spacing between specific letters is called...
Tracking
Units
Degrees
Kerning
The x-height of a lowercase letter runs from the baseline to the...