MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture 1: MMEDIA 1A03- Week 9
12 Jan 2019
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The art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. Font: character set of a single size and style of a typeface. Note: font is often used to mean the same thing as typeface, even though technically a typeface is made up of several sizes. i. e. helvetica italic 10-point is a font. Font family: character set of all sizes of a particular typeface (but not all styles). i. e. helvetica is a typeface family. Typeface: a set of characters that share common design features. Note: each style of a font is a particular typeface, so arial narrow is a different typeface than arial. i. e. helvetica italic is a different typeface than helvetica bold. Which statement about the above sentence is true: it contains one font, it contains two fonts, it contains one font family, it contains two font families, it contains three typefaces. There are always exceptions, always excuses for stunts and surprises.
