Multiple Media of Texts

How does Desktop publishing differ from book publishing?

Desktop publishing allows writers more visual control over their own texts.

It is easier to textually design the structures of book publishing.

Book publishing is harder to textually design than desktop publishing.

The visual aspects of text are (therefore) to be understood not simply in terms of physiology but also in terms of _____ context

Script Typefaces

Origin from the European Renaissance. These look like they are drawn with a quill and ink.

This font has the same weight with each letter. More specifically, each letter is the same thickness.

These look as though they were drawn by hand with a pen.

These were modern when they were first designed in the 18th century. Type designers wanted new typefaces that would reflect the Enlightenment. New technologies allwoed them to design these faces with thin strokes.

Modern typefaces

Origin from the European Renaissance. These look like they are drawn with a quill and ink.

This font has the same weight with each letter. More specifically, each letter is the same thickness.

These look as though they were drawn by hand with a pen.

Roman typefaces

Origin from the European Renaissance. These look like they are drawn with a quill and ink.

This font has the same weight with each letter. More specifically, each letter is the same thickness.

These look as though they were drawn by hand with a pen.

Slab Serif or Egyptian typefaces

Origin from the European Renaissance. These look like they are drawn with a quill and ink.

This font has the same weight with each letter. More specifically, each letter is the same thickness.

These look as though they were drawn by hand with a pen.

These "Data visualizations" are used on a page or a screen and are intended to bring a scientific or technical tone to a text.

Different types of media including text, video, sound, graphics and animations.

Hyperlinks

Multimedia

Presentation

This ensures that the author's rights of images and sounds used in multimedia products are protected and acknowledged. Copyrighted material cannot be used without the owner's permission.

This software is used for simple photo editing. This software is more strictly used for adjusting a pictures' visual properties (exposures and saturation), rather than altering a pictures physical properties.

True or False: Contrast is created when two or more elements are the same

True or False: A drawing or painting is an illlustration that is not supposed to look as though it were made by a camera.

Multiple Media of Texts

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