QUESTIONS
1. What was the so-called invention of printing?
2. What was Gutenberg’s contribution to printing?
3. Describe a type.
4. Upon what does the utility of type depend? Why?
5. How many different characters are required in ordinary book printing?
6. Into what classes are they divided?
7. How much of the surface of a type is covered by the letter?
8. How is the type body related in size to the letter face? Why?
9. What are the blank parts around the face of the letter called?
10. Describe each part.
11. What is the nick and what is its use?
12. What is a font of type?
13. In what is it kept for the compositor’s use?
14. What characters are included in an ordinary font of roman type for book work?
15. What can you say about small capitals?
16. What can you say about other extra characters?
17. What characters do fonts of advertising and jobbing type include?
18. Name some other characters supplied by the foundries?
19. What determines the number of characters of the various sorts in a font of type?
20. Is there any rule fitting all kinds of composition?
21. Mention some special kinds of composition and tell what extra sorts each demands.
22. How are ordinary faces measured when used in large quantities?
23. How are job fonts designated?
24. To what kind of type do these schemes apply?
25. What are the three measurements for type?
26. What is the “size” of a type?
27. What is the “set” of a type?
28. Describe the point system.
29. What are the usual sizes of type?
30. What other sizes are made and for what are they used?
31. What determines the choice of sizes for any particular face?
32. What are bastard types?
33. Can you always tell the size of type used by examining a printed page? Why?
34. What is meant by height-to-paper?
35. How were types described before the adoption of the point system?
36. Give the old names in common use and the approximate equivalents in points.
37. What can you say of 16, 20, 22, 28, and 40-point sizes?
38. What are the advantages of the application of the point system to the width of type?
39. What is meant by “lining” type faces?
40. What is the chief advantage of the lining system?
41. What is needed when a word of small type is placed beside a word of large type? Why?
42. How is the line justified?
43. Into what groups are type faces divided for aligning purposes?
44. What are “combination series” of lining types?
46. How is kerning avoided?
47. What are the advantages and disadvantages of these expedients?
48. What is an em quad?
49. Describe the spaces used in type composition.
50. Describe the mold used in type casting.
51. Describe the three methods of making the matrix.
52. What was the old method of casting type?
53. What is the modern method?
54. Describe the different kinds of type-casting machines.
55. Describe the finishing of type after casting.
56. How is type made outside the type foundries?
57. What is a Linotype?
58. What does a Linotype produce?
59. Describe briefly the operation of a Linotype.
60. How are Linotype matrices distributed?
61. What does the operator have to do?
62. What is a Monotype?
63. What does a Monotype do?
64. What are the essential differences between a Monotype and a Linotype?
65. Describe the operation of the Monotype keyboard.
66. Describe the operation of the casting machine.
67. What peculiarity has the Monotype?
68. What is type made of?
69. What are the qualities of the several ingredients?
70. What can you say of the uses of different metals in the type foundries?
71. What sort of type metal is used in composing machines?
72. What other material is used for type?
73. For what purpose is it used?
74. How is this kind of type made?