Ways to indicate a new paragraph?: indent first line, hanging indent, bold or colored typeface.
What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text?:
Try to leave at least 2 characters on the line and 3 following, avoid hyphenating proper nouns.
Define font hinting. Why is it necessary?
Font hinting: using a rasterized grid to display letter forms that look right to the human eye. At low screen resolutions, hinting is critical for producing a clear, legible text.What is letterspacing/tracking? How do you track in Illustrator or InDesign?
Tracking is the process of loosening or tightening a block of text by adjusting the size of the text height. To manipulate tracking in Illustrator or InDesign, type or select a numeric value for Tracking (looks like A over A) in the Character panel.Define Kerning? Name 8 kerning pairs. How do you kern in InDesign or Illustrator?
Kerning is the process of adding or subtracting space between specific pairs of characters. You can automatically kern type using metrics kerning or optical kerning. Metrics kerning uses kern pairs, which are included with most fonts. Kern pairs contain information about the spacing of specific pairs of letters. Some of these are: LA, P., To, Tr, Ta, Tu, Te, Ty, Wa, WA, We, Wo, Ya, and Yo. To kern in Illustrator or InDesign, type or select a numeric value for kerning (looks like A V) in the Character panel.What is wordspacing?
Word spacing refers to the size of the space between words.Explain DIN
DIN, an acronym for the German Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization), and the name of an increasingly large realist sans-serif typeface family. The design was based on a 1905 typeface for the Royal Prussian Railway Administration and was originally used for schematics and blueprints. As the typeface grew in popularity, it was released as a metal type, made into stencils for use on vehicles and in train yards, and used for street and building signage. DIN's structure has been accredited as an early forerunner of the typographic grid and widely used by signage and corporate identities around the world.What is a baseline grid?
A baseline grid is an imaginary grid upon which type sits. The baseline pf a piece of type can be forced to 'snap' to this grid to maintain continuity across the pages of a design. The grid in Baseline is composed of 4 basic columns, for more flexibility each column can be divided in 2 units.How many characters per line is optimal? Is there a range?
Optimal words per line is between 40-80.
Optimal words per line is between 40-80.
Define aesthetic text alignment (optically hanging punctuation)
Hanging punctuation controls the alignment of punctuation marks for a specific paragraph. Paragraph alignment determines the margin from which the punctuation hangs. What is a typographic river?
A typographic river occurs in justified text blocks when the separation of the words leaves gaps of white space in several lines. A river effect is created where white space gaps align through the text.
What is a widow?
A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page/column, thus separated from the rest of the text.
What is an orphan?
are words or short lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph, which are left dangling at the top or bottom of a column, separated from the rest of the paragraph. -avoid at all costs.









