Bookman Oldstyle Questions

Define and give 3 font examples: Old Style, Transitional, Modern, Slab Serif and Sans Serif.
- Old Style: vertical stress, thick and thin stroke weight (higher contrast), brackets and wedges on the serifs. (Bookman, Garamond, Sabon) 1450
- Transitional: Higher contrast between thick and thin stroke, vertical stress, bracket serifs, tall x-height. (Baskerville, Century, Carlson, Perpetua) 1750
- Modern: Hairline serifs, vertical stress, highest contrast between thick and thin stroke, unbracketed serifs. (Mechanical, Didot, Walbaum, Bodoni) 1775
- Slab serif (Square/ Egyptian) Thick, square serifs, medium or less contrast (sometimes mono weight), unbracketed serifs (usually), very constructed/little geometric. (Memphis, Swift, Serifa, Rockwell) 1880
Define Proportions of the letterform: characterized by four main factors. Ratio of stroke width to the height of the character, contrast between the thickness and thinness of the stroke weight, the proportion of the x-height to the height of the capital letters, ascenders, and descenders, and influencing proportion is the width of the letterforms.
Define Stroke Weight is a straight or curved diagonal line and it's thickness.
Define Axis or Stress as it relates to font classification: upward stress can have taller letters or the thinnest stroke weight is at the top and bottom center of the inside of the letter "O."
- Axis: an imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes.
Lining Figures, Non-aligning figures: Style of Arabic Numerals where the characters appear at different positions and heights as opposed to the modern style of all numerals at the same size and position
Ligatures: Two or more letters combined into one character make a ligature. In typography some ligatures represent specific sounds or words such as the AE or æ diphthong ligature
Define: Dashes: used singly in place of a colon, esp to indicate a sudden change of subject or grammatical anacoluthon, or in pairs to enclose a parenthetical remark
Define Appostrophes (smart quotes): a punctuation mark ( ’ ) used to indicate either possession (e.g., Harry's book ;boys' coats ) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g., can't ; he's ; class of ’99).
Summerize optical relastionships within a font: The way they look together within a composition or text.
Summerize Type measurement: height determined by x-height and around the x-height.
Type Houses: Business that sells fonts.
Font Space
Chron
PS Print
Fast Code
FastCo Design
Adobe