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17. What characters do fonts of advertising and jobbing type include?

18. Name some other characters supplied by the foundries?

19. What determines the number of characters of the various sorts in a font of type?

20. Is there any rule fitting all kinds of composition?

21. Mention some special kinds of composition and tell what extra sorts each demands.

22. How are ordinary faces measured when used in large quant.i.ties?

23. How are job fonts designated?

24. To what kind of type do these schemes apply?

25. What are the three measurements for type?

26. What is the ”size” of a type?

27. What is the ”set” of a type?

28. Describe the point system.

29. What are the usual sizes of type?

30. What other sizes are made and for what are they used?

31. What determines the choice of sizes for any particular face?

32. What are b.a.s.t.a.r.d types?

33. Can you always tell the size of type used by examining a printed page? Why?

34. What is meant by height-to-paper?

35. How were types described before the adoption of the point system?

36. Give the old names in common use and the approximate equivalents in points.

37. What can you say of 16, 20, 22, 28, and 40-point sizes?

38. What are the advantages of the application of the point system to the width of type?

39. What is meant by ”lining” type faces?

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