typography : a basic understanding of typography

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Page 1: Typography : A Basic Understanding of Typography

By : Noor Asmah Bt Md Taib

Page 2: Typography : A Basic Understanding of Typography

The art & Science of arranging type

The set of character with design features making them similar to other.

SerifSans SerifSlab SerifScriptBlackletterDecorative

Type SizePostureColourAllignmentLeadingWeight

LeadingKerningTracking

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> The set of character with design features making them

similar to other.

> Font Family

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Type Size

Posture

Weight

Colour

Leading

>72-pt =1in

>36-pt =1/2in

>18-pt =1/4in

PRINCIPLES of

>Lightness

>Darkness

Allignment

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Capital HighKerning

Ascender Line

Body Size

DescenderLoopSerif

Capital LineMean Line

Based Line

Descender Line

x-height

Ascender

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Ascender LineCapital LineMean Line

Based Line

Descender Line

Close BowlEar Counter

Vertex StemArms/Bars

Close Bowl

Close Stroke

TerminalClose Counter Bowl

BarbsEar

Apex Cross Bar

Tail Close Bowl

Open Bowl

Spur Hairline

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