Chapter 3 : Text

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Chapter 3 : Text by Mind Map: Chapter 3 :  Text

1. Typeface

1.1. A family of graphic characters , often with many type sizes and styles.

1.2. Exp : Bookman Old Styles

2. Font

2.1. A collection of characters of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family.

2.2. Exp : Arial 18 point Bold

2.3. Serif versus Sans Serif

2.3.1. Serif

2.3.1.1. little decoration at the end of a letter stroke

2.3.1.2. used for printed media / documents that have large quantities of text

2.3.2. Sans Serif

2.3.2.1. do not have decoration at the end of a letter stroke

2.3.2.2. used for headlines and bold statements

3. Text Elements in Multimedia

3.1. Menus for navigation

3.2. Interactive buttons

3.3. Fields for reading

3.4. HTML documents

3.5. Symbols & Icons

4. Fonts & Typefaces include

4.1. Font styles

4.1.1. Boldface

4.1.2. Italic

4.1.3. Underlining

4.1.4. Outlining

4.2. Font terminology

4.2.1. Baseline

4.2.2. Cap height

4.2.3. X-height

4.2.4. Ascenders / Descenders

4.2.5. Kerning

4.2.6. Tracking

4.3. Cases

4.3.1. Capitalized letter = uppercase

4.3.2. Small letter = Lowercase

5. Hypertext VS Hypermedia

5.1. Hypertext

5.1.1. Contains links to other texts

5.2. Hypermedia

5.2.1. Not constrained to be text-based

5.2.2. Links

5.2.2.1. Connections between conceptual elements

5.2.3. Nodes

5.2.3.1. Accessible topics , documents , messages & content elements

5.2.4. Anchors

5.2.4.1. The reference from one document to another , image , sound / file on the Web