General Typography MCQs

1. Which of these programs are you able to design typefaces in?

2. Which one of these describes a 'river'?

3. Type Design is...

4. Which of the following is a Slab Serif typeface?

5. Which font does not belong?

6. Pertaining to type design – x-height – is the distance between...

7. The longest of the dashes is the:

8. Where should en dashes (–) be used?

9. What is the general term used to describe a company that specializes in designing and/or distributing typefaces?

10. How many spaces should come after a period, between sentences when using Mac & Windows fonts?

11. What is the common term for letterforms that are connected?

12. How do you refer to the strokes of lowercase letter that extend below the rest of the letter?

13. Modern movable type, along with the mechanical printing press, was invented in mid-15th century Europe by

14. Which of the following is a sans-serif typeface?

15. Which option below is a standard serif typeface pre-installed on most operating systems?

16. What is the correct name for the following glyph: *

17. Where should hyphens (-) be used?

18. What is microtypography?

19. What do ligatures do?

20. Pertaining to type design – what is a serif?

21. What does the term descender refer to?

22. "&" What is this symbol called?

23. Which is not a sans serif font?

24. What does the weight of a font refer to?

25. What size font is generally used in paragraphs of body copy?

26. The top point of a capital A is called:

27. Which of these is not a type adjustment?

28. What does sans serif mean?

29. This symbol has the general meaning of "commercial at" or "at the rate of." Which symbol holds these titles?

30. Does a descender fall below the base line?

31. A text alignment that fills the space between margins leaving a neat straight edged block of text but can leave extra space between words that become "rivers" of white space running through the paragraph. The text alignment is

32. What is a baseline?

33. Strikeout means

34. Is there a difference between Arial and Helvetica?

35. How do you refer to the strokes of lowercase letters that rise above the rest of the letter?

36. What is a double-story "g"?

37. The hump of an n is called a...

38. Legibility refers to....

39. A hyphen would be used for:

40. Placing glyphs closer or farther to each other manually for every glyph is called:

41. Which of these is an example of a slab serif typeface?

42. The combining of two glyphs into one such as ff or fi is called a(n):

43. Experimental typography is defined as:

44. What is the name for the middle portion of the letter "S"?

45. Which font would be considered a Sans Serif font?

46. Which of the following is a slab serif?

47. Uneven Rag can affect the overall _____ of a text block.

48. These are all variations of what: Plain, bold, italic, underline, outline, and shadow?

49. What is the correct name for the glyph "^"?

50. What is a common ligature?

51. Which parts of letters reach below the baseline?

52. Kerning is the spacing between letters; whereas leading is the spacing between...

53. It is acceptable typographic practice to use two hyphens in place of an em dash.

54. What is the horizontal line in a lowercase f and t called?

55. The typeface Rockwell is primarily used as (a)...

56. How do you refer to the height of capital letters in a typeface?

57. Which of these well-recognized and often utilized typefaces was the basis for a documentary in 2007?

58. Where should em dashes (—) be used?

59. Which letter is considered to have an 'ascender'?

60. What is the invisible line called that defines the height of the lower case letters?

61. What is the space between two baselines called?

62. The imaginary line upon which the base of each capital letter rests is called the:

63. A set of two commonly kerned letters are called?

64. x-height is best described as...

65. An ascender in typography is....

66. True or False: Lowercase type is easier to read than uppercase.

67. Which of these is NOT an example of a Sans-Serif typeface?

68. For a break in thought (i.e. a strong break in a sentence) a typographer should use:

69. What is the difference between kerning and tracking?

70. A glyph consisting of 3 periods is called a(n)...

71. What is a bowl?

72. Which of the following is monospaced?

73. In typography, a counter is:

74. Garamond is considered what kind of typeface?

75. What do the names Renner, Gill, Bodoni, and Miedinger have in common?

76. The end of a non serifed stroke is referred to as the:

77. What is the term for the line between the weighted diagonal (stem) and diagonal hairline in an capital A?

78. Swash refers to what?

79. In general type design practice, what is the difference between a counter and an aperture?

80. What are widows?

81. How many points in a pica?

82. Which of these utilizes numerals set in varying heights

83. True or False: It is safe to assume font files purchased through a reputable foundry are legal to embed online.

84. The numbers in a typeface with ascenders and decsenders are called:

85. What is the horizontal line in the capital alphabet "H" called?

86. True or False: In typography, hyphens are technically known as en dashes.

87. Which dash should be used to specify a range (eg: 1985-1993)

88. "Letter press" is...

89. What is the space inside a capital D, R, B, and P called

90. What is the difference between "italic" and "oblique" font types?

91. To typeset a range of numbers (i.e. 15–25) a typographer should use:

92. The rounded part of a capital B is called a...

93. Which font is all caps, and does not contain any lowercase characters?

94. How is leading measured, from one word to the word directly below it?

95. TrueType is used in...

96. Which of the following is a transitional serif typeface:

97. Numbers with descenders are called:

98. Transitional fonts have...

99. Which of the following is an old style typeface?

100. "Set solid" refers to _______.

101. What is the term for the vertical length of a capital L?

102. What is a colophon?

103. What is the name of the small outward facing protrusion sometimes found on the lowercase "g"?

104. The tail of an serifed "a" is known as the...

105. What is the name of the portion of the letter "N" that connects the two vertical strokes?

106. True or False: The human eye is incapable of perceiving jagged edges from pixels composing type on a 96 DPI display.

107. Does "Gothic" refer to a sans serif font or serif font?

108. Hanging punctuation is used to:

109. An 'Em' dash can used for for all of the following except.

110. What category of typeface has an extreme contrast in stroke?

111. Which of the following is a modern serif typeface?

112. Which is the earliest letter in the alphabet which, in its lowercase form, features an ascender?

113. The most precise classification of Helvetica, a typeface characterized by neutral forms with minimal stroke contrast, is _______.

114. The typeface Helvetica was designed in the 1950’s to compete with which of the following?

115. What is the correct term when curved letter parts extend slightly over the base line or x-height?

116. What is "ç" called in English?

117. What does hinting refer to?

118. Tahoma, Arial, and Geneva are all examples of what?

119. What is the relationship between curved strokes and straight vertical strokes?

120. Which of the following is an octothorpe?

121. What are majuscules?

122. The OpenType format was developed by...

123. Which of these is not a real typographic mark?

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

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

126. Times New Roman and and Baskerville are classified as:

127. The ampersand is derived from a merging of these characters:

128. Who invented italic type?

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

130. The typeface Clarendon is associated with which font family?

131. What kind of an aperture do humanistic typefaces usually have?

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

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

134. STD in Helvetica Neue STD LT is an abbreviation for

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

136. What are Orphans?

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

138. An uppercase O is usually __________.

139. What weight classification of font would be the heaviest.

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

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