Chapter 3 - Text
by Cheah Chee Yong
1. Type of Font Terminology
1.1. Baseline
1.2. Cap Height
1.3. X-Height
1.4. Ascender
1.5. Descender
1.6. Kerning
1.7. Tracking
2. Serif
2.1. Little Decoration at the end of a letter
2.2. used for printed media or document
3. Sans Serif
3.1. do not have decoration at the end of letter
3.2. better for computer displays
4. Hypertext
4.1. text which contains link to other texts
5. Hypermedia
5.1. not constrained to be text-based
6. Hypermedia Structure
6.1. Link
6.2. Nodes
6.3. Anchors
7. 5 types of text element
7.1. Menus for navigation
7.2. Interactive buttons
7.3. Fields for reading
7.4. HTML documents
7.5. Symbols and Icons
8. Bitmaps
8.1. File size increase as more size
8.2. a lot of memory
8.3. Non-scalable
9. Vector
9.1. mathematical formulate
9.2. File size is much smaller than bitmaps
10. Type of Computer and Text
10.1. Character sets
10.2. Unicode