Step 1 of 13 7% Happy to have you here taking this short quiz! You will test your knowledge and possibly even learn some new things you didn't know about the world of typography. Have fun! Why should you care about typography?* Because the web is still about 95% typography. Readable text is essential to good user experience and accessibility. It will make your website get to the first page for your search term on Google. I really can't make myself care about it, sorry. Is a font the same as a typeface?* No Who cares? Yes What if I accidentally say 'font' when I should say 'typeface'?* You will go to typographical hell. Why would I talk about typography anyway? It's fine, we're in the digital age anyway and now the two terms have become more or less equivalent. What's the difference between readability and legibility?* Readability is the ease of reading individual letters. Legibility is the ease of reading long chunks of text Legibility is the ease of reading individual letters. Readability is the ease of reading long chunks of text They're the same thing What's the best alignment for readability?* Centred alignment Left alignment Justified alignment Is it ok to use all caps on the web?* It's fine, just use the cap locks on your keyboard It's good for children's publications as that's how children first learn how to read It's best only for short sentences or titles, with the correct mark-up and CSS What's the difference between tracking and kerning?* I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about Kerning is the spacing between all the characters in a word or a block of text; tracking is the spacing between two letters only Tracking is the spacing between all the characters in a word or a block of text; kerning is the spacing between two letters only Is leading the same as line-height?* Whatever Yes No What's a good rule of thumb for setting line height?* Between 2x and 3x of the type size Between 1.3x and 1.75x of the type size 2em will always work What's a 'widow' in typography?* It's a single line at the top of a new page/column, at the end of a paragraph It's a single line at the bottom of a page/column, at the beginning of a paragraph It's a lone word at the end of a paragraph What's 'x-height' in type anatomy?* The parameter for calculating line height in CSS The height of the lowercase letter 'x' from the baseline to the top I don't know, does it matter? And finally, the bang at the end: What's an interrobang?* Nothing. You just made it up A punctuation mark to express incredulity A KGB interrogation technique during the Cold War
