Type Part 3

REVIEW QUESTIONS

SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS

The following questions, based on the contents of this pamphlet, are intended to serve (1) as a guide to the study of the text, (2) as an aid to the student in putting the information contained into definite statements without actually memorizing the text, (3) as a means of securing from the student a reproduction of the information in his own words.

A careful following of the questions by the reader will insure full acquaintance with every part of the text, avoiding the accidental omission of what might be of value. These primers are so condensed that nothing should be omitted.

In teaching from these books it is very important that these questions and such others as may occur to the teacher, should be made the basis of frequent written work, and of final examinations.

The importance of written work cannot be overstated. It not only a.s.sures knowledge of material but the power to express that knowledge correctly and in good form.

If this written work can be submitted to the teacher in printed form it will be doubly useful.

QUESTIONS

1. What was the so-called invention of printing?

2. What was Gutenberg's contribution to printing?

3. Describe a type.

4. Upon what does the utility of type depend? Why?

5. How many different characters are required in ordinary book printing?

6. Into what cla.s.ses are they divided?

7. How much of the surface of a type is covered by the letter?

8. How is the type body related in size to the letter face? Why?

9. What are the blank parts around the face of the letter called?

10. Describe each part.

11. What is the nick and what is its use?

12. What is a font of type?

13. In what is it kept for the compositor's use?

14. What characters are included in an ordinary font of roman type for book work?

15. What can you say about small capitals?

16. What can you say about other extra characters?

17. What characters do fonts of advertising and jobbing type include?

18. Name some other characters supplied by the foundries?

19. What determines the number of characters of the various sorts in a font of type?

20. Is there any rule fitting all kinds of composition?

21. Mention some special kinds of composition and tell what extra sorts each demands.

22. How are ordinary faces measured when used in large quant.i.ties?

23. How are job fonts designated?

24. To what kind of type do these schemes apply?

25. What are the three measurements for type?

26. What is the "size" of a type?

27. What is the "set" of a type?

28. Describe the point system.

29. What are the usual sizes of type?

30. What other sizes are made and for what are they used?

31. What determines the choice of sizes for any particular face?

32. What are b.a.s.t.a.r.d types?

33. Can you always tell the size of type used by examining a printed page? Why?

34. What is meant by height-to-paper?

35. How were types described before the adoption of the point system?

36. Give the old names in common use and the approximate equivalents in points.

37. What can you say of 16, 20, 22, 28, and 40-point sizes?

38. What are the advantages of the application of the point system to the width of type?

39. What is meant by "lining" type faces?