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Principles and elements quiz

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Color Theory Worksheet

Please read the materials listed below and answer the following questions:

• Color Theory Intro: http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/color/index.php
• Color Wheel: http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/color/color-wheel.php
• Color Combinations: http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/color/color-combos.php
• Tints, Shades & Neutrals: http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/color/tints_shades_neutrals.php
• Emotional Content: http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/color/emotional-content.php
• Color Meaning: http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
• Color Physiology:  http://www.webdesign.org/web-design-basics/color-theory/color-psychology-quick-reference-cards.13826.html

Please type out answers in complete sentences.  You may paraphrase.  Please do NOT copy and paste definitions. 

1. Define hue: What distinguishes one hue from another.
2. Define value: The lightness or darkness of a color
3. Define saturation: Brightness
4. How many colors are available on our computers? 16.8 million
5. Define secondary color: Two primaries mixed together.
6. Define tertiary color: Primary plus a secondary.
7. Define complementary colors: Two opposite colors.
8. What are the primary colors in Photoshop? Red Green Blue
9. What are the secondary colors in Photoshop? Cyan magenta yellow
10. Define subtractive color model: creates black
11. Define additive color model: creates white
12. Is RGB additive or subtractive? additive
13. Is CMYK additive or subtractive? subtractive
14. What is the RGB color model used for? light colors
15. What is the CMYK color model used for? Dark colors
16. Define analogous colors: sit next to each other on the color wheel
17. Define tint: white added to a pure color
18. Define shade: black added to a pure color
19. Define neutral: combination of complementary colors
20. What can be said in general about warm colors? Get your attention
21. What can be said in general about cool colors? Recede in design
22. What color is associated with stability? Dark blue
23. What color symbolizes royalty? purple
24. What is the color of cleanliness? Light blue
25. What color symbolizes freshness? Light yellow
26. Which colors are associated with joy? yellow
27. What color symbolizes passion and danger? red
28. Dark red is associated with: anger
29. Reddish-brown is associated with: harvest  
30. Dark orange is associated with: distrust
31. Gold is associated with: high quality
32. Yellow is associated with: happiness
33. Dark green is associated with: greed
34. Olive green is associated with: peace
35. Light blue is associated with: health
36.  Dark purple is associated with: gloom
37. Why is the use of color important in graphic Design? To subconsciously evoke the right kind of emotion or get the viewer’s attention.  

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Typography worksheet

Typography Worksheet:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/courses/CSE5910/lectureFiles/lecture5b.htm

Anatomy http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/typography/anatomy.php

Write out the answers to these questions in complete sentences. 

Label and define all of the above numbers:

1. Ascender line, the imaginary line that determines the height of ascenders.
2. Base line where all the characters rest.
3. Ascender height in between ascender and base line.
4. Cap height is the height of capital letters.
5.  Descender is the stroke of a letter that curves below the base line.
6.  Ascender is the stroke of a letter that curves above the mean line.
7.  X-height is the distance between the mean line.
8.  Cap line determines the height of capital letters.
9.  The mean line determines the height of lowercase letters.
10.  The descender line determines the bottom reach of descenders.

Type Families:   http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/typography/type-families.php

Define Serif: The line that extends from top to bottom making letters easier to read.
Define Sans-Serif: A typeface that is straight with no serifs.
When do you use Antique Fonts? When trying to evoke a period feel.
At most how many words should be Decorative Fonts at a time? Three.
What does a script font resemble? Handwriting.
What element of design does script represent? (From elements lesson) Movement.
Why use Symbol Fonts? To complement a specific font.

Essentials:  http://freelancefolder.com/typography-essentials-a-getting-started-guide/

Define Typography: A writing style for arranging words in a certain manner.
Why do designers need a solid foundation in typography?
Kerning: To understand how to modify the space between letters.
Leading: To modify the space between lines
Tracking: To create white space throughout the text body.

When do you use the following?
Center Alignment: For drawing attention.
Right Alignment: For business.
Justified Alignment: For newspapers and textbooks. 

Styling:  http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/typography/styling-formatting.php

What is remembered: good styling or bad styling? Good styling.
What is legibility? The quality of being readable.
Type size smaller than 7pt is: 6pt
Type size smaller than 3pts is: Utterly Illegible
Type range for legible type is: 8-14pt
What do you use for long passages? Serif font
What case do we use for Body? Upper case
What is measure? The width of the text column
What can you tell me about Ragged Edges? The edge that is not in a straight line.

Text as Image: http://www.nhsdesigns.com/graphic/typography/text-as-image.php

What are some ways text can be used and what font types do you use for each?
For single lines of text, (Latin) for seasonal moods, (old writing) for portraits. (The virtual likenesses of the subject)

Choosing and Using Type:  http://www.will-harris.com/use-type.htm

**Read ALL of it.  Answer the following:

Why is choosing and using the right font important? (Two reasons)

1. To keep the type appropriate to the text.
2. To put the right emotion into the text.

What are the two most important things to remember? What is appropriate and what puts in the right emotion.  
What is appropriate? What do you have to consider?

That depends on the situation. You have to consider what the text is for.

Tell me the rules:  (there are 10)

1. Body text should be between 10 and 12 point.

2. Use enough leading.

3. Don’t make your lines too short or too long.

4. Make paragraph beginnings clear.

5. Use only one space after a period.

6. Don’t justify text unless you have to.

7. Don’t underline anything.

8. Use italics instead of underlines.

9. Don’t set long blocks of text in italics, bold, or all caps.

10. Leave more space above headline and subheads than below them.

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