Typography and Text Formatting Flashcards
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Which panel displays all available characters, including alternates and ornaments, in a font?
Answer: Glyphs panel
The Glyphs panel shows every glyph available in a font.
What are ligatures in typography?
Answer: Two or more characters combined into a single glyph
Ligatures merge characters like 'fi' into one designed glyph.
Which OpenType feature provides decorative letter variations often used at the start or end of words?
Answer: Swashes
Swashes are ornamental glyph variants for stylistic flourishes.
What does enabling 'Small Caps' do when applied to lowercase letters?
Answer: Displays them as capital letters at a reduced height
Small caps render lowercase as smaller capital letters.
Which type of figures aligns numbers to a uniform height like capital letters?
Answer: Lining figures
Lining figures sit at cap height with uniform alignment.
What is the benefit of using tabular figures in a financial table?
Answer: Each digit occupies the same width for aligned columns
Tabular figures share equal widths so numerals align vertically.
Which feature lets you convert typed fractions like 1/2 into properly designed fraction glyphs?
Answer: OpenType Fractions
The OpenType Fractions feature substitutes designed fraction glyphs.