Typography Quiz # 5

What are majuscules?

Similar to ligatures, glyphs formed from three joined characters.

Typefaces not designed to be read at small sizes.

Uppercase characters.

Glyphs drawn by famous designers.

Large headlines.

The OpenType format was developed by...

Macromedia

Adobe and Microsoft

Apple

Adobe

Which of these is not a real typographic mark?

Interpunct

Guillemet

Stream

Dagger

Ditto

What is the alternative name given to the pound sign (#)?

sharp sign

dagger

octothorpe

hash tag

Who is the author of "The Elements of Typographic Style"?

Hermann Zapf

Robert Bringhurst

Carol Twombly

Jonathon Hoefler

Paul Rand

Times New Roman and and Baskerville are classified as:

Slab

Transitional

Old style

Modern

The ampersand is derived from a merging of these characters:

et

etc

and

at

exc

Who invented italic type?

Aldo Novarese

Giambattista Bodoni

Luciano Pavarotti

Allessandro Butti

Aldus Manutius

What is the correct name for the glyph "¶"?

pilcrow

paramark

new line mark

iplam

The typeface Clarendon is associated with which font family?

Transitional

Venetian

Sans-Serifs

Old Roman

Slab Serifs

What kind of an aperture do humanistic typefaces usually have?

Closed

Opened

Semi-closed

What is the name of the portion of the lowercase "g" that connects the loop with the rest of the letter's body?

Neck

Link

Ligament

Slink

Connector

In typography, what refers to the overall density of a text?

Emphasis

Padding

Kerning

Color

Aperture

STD in Helvetica Neue STD LT is an abbreviation for

Stempel Didot

Sans Type Design

Stemple Type Design

Standard Opentype

Standard

Which character is used in writing dates, to indicate line breaks in poems, and as a general mark of separation?

Solidus

Prime

Virgule

Swung Dash

Backslash

What are Orphans?

A single word on a new page.

None of these.

A single sentence on a new page.

Single lines of copy alone at the start of a page.

Paragraph-opening copy alone at the end of a page or column.

What is the correct name for the glyph "†"?

dagger

crux

An uppercase O is usually __________.

slightly heavier at the bottom

of equal weight on top and bottom

slightly heavier at the top

What weight classification of font would be the heaviest.

Nord

Heavy

Bold

Black

Superfat

Commas, colons and em dash are all examples of...

tildas

accentures

punctation

diacritic marks

tick marks

A spelling mistake in a message is an example of ________.

Ecoding error

A receiver error

A transmission error

An encoding error

Decorative opening and closing quotation marks can be inserted using the _____ property.

Browser developer tools

Inserting quotation marks

Displaying attribute values

Setting the padding space

In one-point perspective, parallel lines converge at a single ________ on the horizon.

Contour line

Vanishing point

Shape

Line

Use the ________ tag to code embedded styles on a web page.

None of the above

Center, left and right text justification are examples of ________.

Rules of logic used to solve computational problems.

Cryptographic alignment used in encoding a document.

Different ways to reason over an pattern recognition algorithm.

Typographic alignment used in formatting a document

_____ measures the amount of space between words.

Tracking

Hue

Absolute

None of these

An external style sheet uses the _____ file extension.

Css

No file extension is necessary

Ess

Htm

____ is/are required information for a citation for a book in mla style.

Date viewed

Title of Web site

Web site publisher or sponsor

All of these