Multimedia Production

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION 4(1+3)

Lesson 11: Multimedia Building Blocks – Text, Animation

Fonts and Faces

• A typeface is family of graphic characters that usually includes many type sizes and styles.
• A font is a collection of characters of a single size and style belonging to a particular typeface family.
• Typical font styles are bold face and italic. Other style attributes such as underlining and outlining of characters, may be added at the users choice.




• The size of a text is usually measured in points. One point is approximately 1/72 of an inch i.e. 0.0138.
• The size of a font does not exactly describe the height or width of its characters. This is because the x-height (the height of lower case character x) of two fonts may differ.
• Typefaces of fonts can be described in many ways, but the most common characterization of a typeface is serif and sans serif.
• The serif is the little decoration at the end of a letter stroke. Times, Times New Roman, Bookman are some fonts which comes under serif category. Serif fonts are generally used for body of the text for better readability.
• Arial, Optima, Verdana are some examples of sans serif font. Sans serif fonts are generally used for headings.