Small caps are letters that appear to be the size of the lower case letters, but look like capitals. If you had a small cap next to an all caps, you would see clearly that the small cap looks the same as the larger cap, but is almost half its size.
The font Garamond does offered small caps.
Ligatures happen when two or more letters are joined as a single glyph.
They are used because sometimes two letters next to each other may appear awkward, such as the f and the i, f and f, f and l.
The font Garamond does have ligatures.
A footmark is a strait mark that floats above the font around the cap height. It is used when showing measurements.
An apostrophe, similar to the footmark, but is curled and almost looks like a floating comma. It is used in text to show that certain letters in a contraction are missing, and to indicate ownership — that something belongs to someone.
Quote marks look to be two apostrophes side by side. They are used in punctuation to emphasize a phrase or word or to indicate speech
Inch marks are strait and similar to quote marks, but they do not curve at all. They are used to describe measurements.
When turned on, Smart Quotes will substitute any strait, inch marks you type into curled apostrophes.
A hyphen is used when you are combining two words or there is a word break. Ex low-budget
An en dash a little bit bigger, the size of an "n" typically. It is used to signify a “through” relationship. For example Monday through Friday would be Monday–Friday
An em dash is the largest hyphen size, sometimes the size of a "m." It indicates a pause, or separates a clause in a sentence—like this—from the rest of the sentence. It is similar to a parenthetical phrases (such as this).
No comments:
Post a Comment