PRWR 4800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Letterform, Cap Height, Grayscale
13 Nov 2017
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One font"s point size does not guarantee that another font at the same point size will look the same or occupy the same space. 5 variable factors: x-height, stroke weight/thickness, letter spacing, cap height, output method. But point size isn"t absolute: output, screen resolution, and application, as well as printer i use a ect. Nal point size: always test-print your documents, size of type in a word document is relative to size of document itself. : with word, you are almost never working on a screen where the word doc is the exact size of the printed doc, with photoshop and adobe apps, resolution is set at 72 pixels per inch. Selecting fonts: formal vs friendly fonts. Formal: moderate weight, moderate or mono weight thick-to-thin transition, moderate x-height to cap-height ratio (2:3 through 3:4, uppercase j that sits on the baseline, horizontal crossbar on the e letterform, double-story a and g letterforms.
