Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Type Visual

Type Vocab

1. Font: a complete assortment of type of one style and size.
2. Type: the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc.
3. Serif: a smaller line used to finish off a main stroke of a letter, as at the top and bottom of M.
4. San-Serif: with out the small lines
5. Italics: designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
6. Stroke: To rub lightly, with or as if with the hand or something held in the hand; caress.
7. Glyph: a pictograph or hieroglyph.
8. Character: the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
9. Script: the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, esp. cursive writing.
10. Ligature: the act of binding or tying up: The ligature of the artery was done with skill.
11. Justification: a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
12. Open Type Fonts: fonts are a compact form of Open Type fonts designed by Microsoft for use as embedded fonts on web pages. These files usually use the extension.
13. TrueType Fonts: is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s
14. Post Script: is writing added after the main body of a letter
15. Leading: refers to the amount of added vertical spacing between lines of type.
16. Kerning: the process of adjusting letter spacing
17.Tracking: refers to the amount of space between a group of letters to affect density in a line or block of text.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Friday, May 15, 2009

Friday, May 8, 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Color Interpretation


Color Vocab

1. Greed-Green
2. Hunger-Brown
3. Money- Green
4. Love-Pink
5. Hate-Dark Red
6. Sickness-Dull Yellow
7. Disease-Dull Yellow
8. Youth-White
9. Sleep-Navy
10. Sadness-Black
11. Misery-Black
12. Old Age-Beige
13. Anger-Dark Red
14. Danger- Orange
15. Affection- Red
16. Wisdom-Beige
17. Purity-White
18. Happiness-Bright Yellow
19. Friendship-Light Blue
20. Time-Beige

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009