PUB 131 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ampersand, Diacritic, Pilcrow

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Publishing Program
• Course: PUB 131
• Professor: Natalie Gagnon

Document Summary

Humanist / old style letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. Transitional sharper serifs and a more vertical axis than humanist. Modern thin, straight serifs;vertical axis; sharp contrast from thick to thin stroke. Small lilting counter in the letter a, and the calligraphic variations in line weight. Os are perfect circles, and the peaks of the a and m are sharp letterform triangles. The letterforms in all typefaces vary from their archetypes in only six aspects: case, weight, contrast, width, posture, and style. The distance from the baseline to the top of capital letter. The cap height of a typeface determines its point size. The height of the main body of the lowercase letter, excluding its ascenders and descenders. This is the most stable axis along a line of text, and it is a crucial edge for aligning text with images or with other text.