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III Multimedia Text

This document discusses the importance of text in multimedia systems and provides information about fonts, typefaces, and using text elements in multimedia presentations. It covers factors that affect text legibility like size, color, and style. It also defines typefaces and fonts, and describes font styles, sizes, cases, and the difference between serif and sans serif fonts. Finally, it briefly introduces hypertext systems.

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III Multimedia Text

This document discusses the importance of text in multimedia systems and provides information about fonts, typefaces, and using text elements in multimedia presentations. It covers factors that affect text legibility like size, color, and style. It also defines typefaces and fonts, and describes font styles, sizes, cases, and the difference between serif and sans serif fonts. Finally, it briefly introduces hypertext systems.

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MULTIMEDIA : Text

Bernardo D. Lamadrid, Ph.D.


MITC 209 Multimedia Systems
Mid Year 2017
Importance of Text
Words and Symbols most common means of
communication
Vital element of multimedia menu, navigation
systems and content
Factors affecting legibility of text
Size

Background and Foreground Color


Style

Leading
Understanding Fonts and
Typefaces
Typeface- family of
graphic characters
Font collection of
characters of a single
size and style belonging
to a particular typeface
family
Understanding Fonts and Typefaces
Font Styles boldface, italics, underlining, outlining
Font Sizes measured in points
Kerning is the spacing in between characters
Leading is the space between lines
Understanding Fonts and Typefaces
Cases Upper, Lower,
InterCap
Serif versus Sans Serif
Serif has little
decoration at the end of
a letter stroke and used
for body text
Sans Serif do not have
serif at the end of the
letter stroke and are
used for headlines and
bold statements
Using Text Elements in Multimedia Presentation
Menu for Navigation
Interactive Buttons
Fields for Reading
HTML Documents use tags
Symbols and Icons
Symbols concentrated text in the form of stand-alone graphic constructs
which are used to convey meaningful messages (i.e. emoticons)
Icons symbolic representation of objects and processes
Font Wars
PostScript (.pfb/.pfm) it is a
method of describing an image in
terms of mathematical constructs
Actual typeface (binary/printer
file)
Typeface complete name
TrueType (.ttf) scalable and can
be drawn much faster
OpenType cross-platform
compatible making it easier to
share files across OS
HyperText System
HyperText the organized cross-linking of words, images,
and other Web elements
a system in which words are keyed or indexed to other
words
It enables the user to navigate through text in a non-linear
way
MULTIMEDIA : Text
Bernardo D. Lamadrid, Ph.D.
MITC 209 Multimedia Systems
Mid Year 2017

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