Thursday, April 26, 2007

Positioning: 4/18



If you know how to describe the different parts of a font, you will be better able to communicate to your group how you measured the spacing in between your different page elements. Here is the typeface terminology you should know:
Q1. Base Line
Q2. Waist Line
Q3. Ascender Line
Q4. Descender Line
Q5. How can we measure the spaces between Headlines and Bylines etc.?
Q6. Body Height: Also called X-Height, distance from top to bottom of lower case letters, not including ascenders and descenders.