Textual Elements

  Textual elements include the visual qualities of the typeface itself: the shape of its design and the possible variations within this basic shape--size italics, upper case, shadow, etc.  Every time you read a line of text--in a textbook, a newspaper, a TV schedule, or a letter (or on the web)--you're absorbing the visual language of type (see 130-131). (think of: weight, form, structure, size, direction NDB)
  • Serifs
  • X-Height
  • Width
  • Line quality

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