ACA Working with Typography 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Adobe Illustrator, which panel allows you to change the tracking value for selected text?
- Paragraph panel
- Character panel (Correct answer)
- Glyphs panel
- OpenType panel
Correct answer: Character panel
The Character panel contains tracking controls that adjust spacing between all selected characters uniformly.
Question 2: What does 'leading' refer to in typography?
- Space between individual letters
- Vertical space between lines of text (Correct answer)
- Horizontal indentation of a paragraph
- Space between words
Correct answer: Vertical space between lines of text
Leading is the vertical distance between baselines of consecutive lines of text.
Question 3: Which font classification is characterized by small decorative strokes at the ends of letterform strokes?
- Sans-serif
- Script
- Serif (Correct answer)
- Monospace
Correct answer: Serif
Serif fonts have small decorative strokes (serifs) at the ends of the main strokes of each letter.
Question 4: In Adobe InDesign, what is the purpose of the 'Baseline Grid'?
- To align text baselines across multiple columns for visual consistency (Correct answer)
- To set the font size for body text
- To create a colored background behind text frames
- To define paragraph indentation values
Correct answer: To align text baselines across multiple columns for visual consistency
The Baseline Grid snaps text baselines to consistent intervals across columns, creating visual alignment.
Question 5: What is 'kerning' in typography?
- Adjusting spacing between all characters equally
- Adjusting spacing between a specific pair of characters (Correct answer)
- Changing the overall size of a typeface
- Aligning text to the baseline
Correct answer: Adjusting spacing between a specific pair of characters
Kerning adjusts the spacing between specific character pairs to improve visual spacing consistency.
Question 6: Which OpenType feature substitutes standard numerals with smaller numbers aligned to the lowercase x-height?
- Lining figures
- Tabular figures
- Oldstyle figures (Correct answer)
- Superscript
Correct answer: Oldstyle figures
Oldstyle figures have varying heights and descenders, blending with lowercase text in body copy.
Question 7: In Adobe Photoshop, which anti-aliasing option produces the sharpest, most pixelated text edges?
- Smooth
- Strong
- Crisp
- None (Correct answer)
Correct answer: None
Setting anti-aliasing to None applies no smoothing, resulting in hard, aliased pixel edges.
ACA Working with Typography 2
In Adobe Illustrator, which panel allows you to change the tracking value for selected text?