Type - Categories
Serif Fonts Oldstyle Transitional Modern Slab Serif
Sans Serif Fonts
ScriptDecorativeMonospaced
Type - Categories
Serif Fonts Oldstyle: Times, Garamond
smooth transitions between thick and thin strokes rounded (bracketed) serifs, slanted serifs diagonal stress
Transitional: Baskerville transition between oldstyle & modern Squared off serifs
Modern: Bodoni, Didot obvious transition between thick and thin strokes angular (unbracketed serifs) vertical stress
Slab Serif: Memphis, Rockwell Slight transitions between thick and thin strokes Serifs are thick, fat, horizontal vertical stress
Type - Categories
Oldstyle: Times, Garamond smooth transitions between thick and thin strokes rounded (bracketed) serifs, slanted serifs diagonal stress
Type - Categories
Modern: Bodoni, Didot obvious transition between thick and thin strokes angular (unbracketed serifs) vertical stress
Type - Categories
Slab Serif: Memphis, Rockwell Slight transitions between thick and thin strokes Serifs are thick, fat, horizontal vertical stress
Type - Categories
Sans Serif Fonts: Arial, Helvetica, Futura, Franklin Gothic Without serifs Usually monoweight: no thick to thin transitions Large x-height
Script
Decorative - experimental, graphic
Type - Categories
Monospaced - uniform spacing (fixed-width)
Proportionately spaced fonts – font rules determine the width of the characters and space around each character (kerning-pairs)
Type - Size Points (1/72 inch) Pica (1 pica = 12 points) – often used to measure width
10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 32, 36
X-height: height of lowercase letters excluding ascenders and descenders
Web (CSS) Absolute units (points, picas, millimeters, centimeters, inches) Relative units (em, ex, pixel, %)
Terminology - spacing
Horizontal Spacing Kerning
Horizontal space between individual letters
Tracking Horizontal space between all characters (across word, line, column)
Web (CSS properties) letter-spacing word-spacing
Terminology - spacing
Vertical Spacing Leading
Vertical Spacing between lines of text
Web (CSS properties) Line-height
Type
Legibility The ease with which type can be understood under normal
reading conditions Clarity and recognition of letterforms, weight and proportion, all
caps vs. lowercase, x-height, serif vs. sans serif
Readability The quality of attracting and holding a reader’s interest, the
comfort of the read Type size, letterspacing, word spacing, linespacing, line length