Digital Multimedia

Day 8

Agenda

  • Text and typography
    • Encoding
    • Fonts
    • Text in other media

Encoding

  • ASCII
  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16

Fonts

  • Glyphs
  • Character codes and fonts
  • Classifying fonts
    • monospaced vs proportional
    • Serif vs sans serif
    • Font family

More on fonts

  • Terminology

Text in other media

  • Embedded in images
  • wysiwyg vs tags
  • On the web
  • In video and animation