1. The study of fonts and typefaces includes the following:
1.1. Font styles Font terminology Cases
1.1.1. Font styles include: Boldface Italic Underlining Outlining
1.1.1.1. Font Terminology Baseline – the line on which the bases of characters are arranged Cap height - cap height refers to the height of a capital letter x-height – the distance between the baseline and the top of a lower-case letter x Ascenders/descenders – strokes that rise above the x-height/drop below the baseline
1.1.2. Font Terminology
1.1.2.1. Baseline – the line on which the bases of characters are arranged Cap height - cap height refers to the height of a capital letter x-height – the distance between the baseline and the top of a lower-case letter x Ascenders/descenders – strokes that rise above the x-height/drop below the baseline
1.1.3. Cases
1.1.3.1. A capitalized letter is referred to as uppercase, while a small letter is referred to as lowercase. Placing an uppercase letter in the middle of a word is referred to as an intercap or CamelCase.
2. Fonts can either be stored as bitmapped or vector.
2.1. Bitmaps font consist of a matrix of dots or pixels representing the image. File size increases as more sizes are added. Require a lot of memory. Non-scalable.
2.1.1. Vector fonts drawing use instructions and mathematical formulae to describe each glyph. can draw any size by scaling the vector drawing primitives mathematically File size is much smaller than bitmaps. TrueType, OpenType and PostScript are vector font formats.
3. The text elements used in multimedia are:
3.1. Menus for navigation Interactive buttons Fields for reading HTML documents Symbols and icons
3.1.1. Menus for navigation A user navigates through content using a menu. A simple menu consists of a text list of topics.
3.1.2. Interactive buttons A button is a clickable object that executes a command when activated. Users can create their own buttons from bitmaps and graphics.
3.1.3. Symbols and icons Symbols are concentrated text in the form of stand-alone graphic constructs. They are used to convey meaningful messages.
3.1.4. Symbols and icons Symbols used to convey human emotions are called emoticons. Icons are symbolic representations of objects and processes.
4. Summary
4.1. Text is one of the most important elements of multimedia. Understanding fonts and typeface. Using text-elements. Bitmap fonts and vector fonts. Character sets. The standard document format used for web pages is called HTML.
4.1.1. A hypertext system enables the user to navigate through text in a nonlinear way.\ Difference between hypertext and hypermedia. Hypermedia Structure.