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Overview

• Importance of text in a multimedia presentation

• Understanding fonts and typefaces

• Using text elements in a multimedia presentation

• Computers and text

• Font editing and design tools

• Multimedia and hypertext

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Importance of Text in a Multimedia Presentation

• Text is very important in communication. It provides information to the audiences.

• Text is a very important element of multimedia. Can be used as menus for navigation, and a body of information, or content. Also can be used as a page titles, labels for pictures or for giving instruction.

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Understanding Fonts and Typefaces

Typefaces : Graphic representation of the alphabet, numbers and special characters.

Font : A particular sizes of typefaces (ex;

“32 point Times New Roman”).

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My topic Algerian

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My topic Curlz MT

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Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)

• The study of fonts and typefaces includes the following:

– Font styles

– Font sizes

– Cases

– Serif versus sans serif

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• Font styles include:

–Boldface Boldface

–Italic Italic

–Underlining Underlining

–Outlining Outlining

Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)

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• Font sizes

– Font size is measured in points.

– 1 point 1/72”

– For multimedia presentation use at least 24 font size.

– Kerning is the spacing between character pairs.

Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)

• Cases

– A capitalized letter is referred to as uppercase,while a small letter is referred to as lowercase.

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• Serif versus sans serif

– A serif is the little decoration at the end of a letter stroke.

– Serif fonts are used for body text.

– Sans serif fonts do not have a serif at the end of a letter stroke.

– These fonts are used for headlines and bold statements.

Understanding Fonts and Typefaces (continued)

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body headlines

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• Choosing text fonts

– Consider legibility.

– Avoid too many typefaces.

– Use color purposefully.

Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

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• Factors affecting legibility of text:

– Size

– Background and foreground colors

– Style

Importance of Text in a Multimedia Presentation

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Selamat maju jaya

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• Choosing text fonts

– Consider legibility.

– Avoid too many typefaces.

– Use color purposefully.

Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

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• Choosing text fonts

– Consider legibility.

– Avoid too many typefaces.

– Use color purposefully.

Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

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• Choosing text fonts

– Use anti-aliased text.

– Minimize centered text.

– Use white space.

– Use animated text to grab attention.

Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

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Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation

• The text elements used in multimedia are:

– Menus for navigation

– Interactive buttons

– Fields for reading

– HTML documents

– Symbols and icons

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• Menus for navigation– A list of commands or options from which you

can choose.

– A user navigates through content using a menu.

– A simple menu consists of a text list of topics.

Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

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Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

• Interactive buttons

– A button is a clickable object that executes a command when activated.

– Users can create their own buttons from graphics.

– Interactive buttons are a graphical, interactive alternative to use when you need to link people to other pages.

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• HTML documents

– HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.

– HTML documents are marked using tags.

Using Text Elements in a Multimedia Presentation (continued)

• Some of the commonly used tags are:

– The <B> tag for making text boldfaced

– The <OL> tag for creating an ordered list

– The <IMG> tag for inserting images

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• Symbols and icons

– Symbols are concentrated text in the form of stand-alone graphic constructs.

– They are used to convey meaningful messages.

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• Symbols and icons

– Symbols used to convey human emotionsare called emoticons.

– Icons are symbolic representations of objects and processes. Cth Trash

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• Character sets

– The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a 7-bit coding system.

– The extended character set is commonly filled with ANSI standard characters.

– Unicode is a 16-bit architecture for multilingual text and character encoding.

Computers and Text (continued)

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• Mapping across platforms

– Fonts and characters are not cross-platformcompatible.

– They must be mapped to the other machine usingfont substitution.

Computers and Text (continued)

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Font Editing and Design Tools

• FontLab, Ltd.

• Creating attractive texts

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Font Editing and Design Tools (continued)

• Fontographer

– Fontographer is a specialized graphics editor.

– It is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms.

– It can be used to develop PostScript, TrueType, and OpenType fonts.

– It can also modify existing typefaces and incorporate PostScript artwork.

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Multimedia and Hypertext

• Multimedia

• Hypertext systems

• Using hypertext systems

• Searching for words

• Hypermedia structures

• Hypertext tools

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Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)

• Multimedia

– Multimedia is defined as the combination of text, graphics, and audio elements into a single presentation.

– When the user assumes control over the presentation, it is called interactive multimedia.

– Interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia when a structure of linked elements is provided to the user for navigation and interaction.

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• Hypertext systems

– Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display with references (hyperlinks) to other text which the reader can immediately access. The hypertext pages are interconnected by hyperlinks

– A hypertext system enables the user to navigate through text in a non-linear way.

Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)

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• Hypermedia structures

– Links

– Nodes

– Anchors

– Navigating hypermedia structures

Multimedia and Hypermedia

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• Links

– Links are connections between conceptual elements that is nodes.

– Links are the navigation pathways and menus.

Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)

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• Nodes

– Nodes are accessible topics, documents, messages, and content elements.

– May consist of text, graphics, sounds or related information.

– Nodes and links form the backbone of a knowledge access system.

Multimedia and Hypertext (continued)

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• Anchors

– An anchor is defined as the reference from one document to another document, image, sound, or file on the Web.

Multimedia and Hypermedia

• Navigating hypermedia structures

– The simplest way to navigate hypermedia structures is via buttons.

– Location markers must be provided to make navigation user-friendly.

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Other Resources

Some of the sources for font shopping

EyeWire (www.eyewire.com)

garageFonts (www.garagefonts.com)

LetterSpace (www.letterspace.com)

BitStream (www.bitstream.com)

MyFonts (www.myfonts.com)

T26 (www.tw6.com)

P22 (www.p22.com)

FontHaus (www.fonthaus.com)