GCM 720 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Screen Printing, Digital Image, Flash Memory

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Graphic Communications
• Course: GCM 720
• Professor: Christopher Smyth

Document Summary

Type and typographic imaging font: complete assortment of a size and style of type, containing all characters and symbols (glyphs) body/x-height: greatest portion of letter. The most important determinant of type size. Baskerville; between old and modern: round serif. Little contrast, even strokes: sans serif. Generally even, little contrast: script, blackletter, decorative. R: ease of reading printed page, type arrangement e. g. size and spacing. L: speed with which each word can be recognized, type design. Line length/measure: length of line of type; narrower is better. Usually 1-2x pt. (e. g. 9-18 pica width for 9 pt type) Today, all output devices are raster-based, i. e. patterns of dots. 4 categories of digital fonts: postscript/type 1. Scalable, bezier curve, don"t need conversion: true type. Scalable, quadratic curve, need conversion: open type. 8 bits = 1 byte; bits are building blocks of digital imaging laser = makes a spot, size based on device resolution.