You can introduce a new paragraph in plenty of ways. One can use rules, boxes, different colors, and drop caps to name a few. You can have various sizes of indent, different kerning on different paragraphs, etc.
What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text?
When hyphenating a text legibility is the most important guideline. Line breaks work smoother when there are natural pauses at the end of a line. Avoid widows (one word on the last line of a paragraph), orphans (one word or sentence continuing alone), breaking a line in the middle of a name or proper noun. Avoid beginning consecutive lines with the same word, avoid ending consecutive lines with the same word, and avoid ending lines with the words: the, of, at, a, by, and so forth.
What is font hinting? Why is it necessary?
Font hinting is a technique to avoid rounding errors in low-resolution digital type. It's necessary for digital formats where not every user sees the same thing.
What is letterspacing/tracking? How do you adjust tracking in Illustrator and InDesign?
Letterspacing is the amount of space between characters. You can adjust tracking through the 'character' window in both Illustrator and InDesign.
Define kerning. Name 8 kerning pairs. How do you kern in Illustrator and InDesign?
Text that is kerned is spaced so that the characters appear visually even. Kerning makes it so that gaps do not appear on letters whose forms angle outward or frame an open space. Kerning is controlled by a table of kerning pairs which specify spaces between different letter combinations. Av, Aw, Ay, Ta, Te, To, Tr, Tu, Tw. You can adjust kerning through the 'character' window in both Illustrator and InDesign.
Try the kerning game. How did you do?
I got an 81. I completely messed up on like 2 of em so it brought my score down.
Define wordspacing.
Wordspacing is the space between words instead of space between letters.
Explain DIN.
DIN is a standardized system of paper sizes for printed matter. DIN uses a 1:
2 ratio.What is a baseline grid?
A baseline grid is an imaginary system of rows in which the lines of text rest on to create an evenly spaced system of text-blocks. The amount of leading is a deciding factor in how much space is between rows in the baseline grid.
How many characters per line is optimal? Is there a range?
Depending on the typeface and the size of the typeface, more or less may be optimal. When the paragraph is justified, it helps to have more characters per line to avoid rivers flowing through the text.
Define aesthetic text alignment (optically hanging punctuation).
Aesthetic text alignment allows for punctuation marks such as quotations to hang outside of the margin so as not to disturb the alignment of text inside the margins.
What is a typographic river, a widow, and an orphan?
A typographic river occurs when there are varying amounts of white space between words in a justified paragraph. This happens when there aren't enough characters per line to fit the justification. It can be relieved by reducing the type size, increasing leading, or adjusting the minium, optimal, and maximum word spacing.
A widow is when there is only one word on the last line of a paragraph.
An orphan is when one word or sentence continues alone.
