PURPOSE

1. To guide the user in navigating through the application.
2. To explain how application work
3. Deliver the information for which the application was designed.

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# Text consists of two structures:

• linear
• Non-linear

# Linear:

• A single way to progress through the text, starting at the beginning and reading to the end.

# Non-linear:

• Information is represented in a semantic network in which multiple related sections of the next are connected to each other.
• A user may then browser trough the section of the next, jumping from one text section to another

Why text is important?

# Factors affecting legibility of text

1. Size: the size of the text
2. Background and foreground color: The color in which the text is written in / on
3. Style: Also known as typeface and font.
4. Leading:

• Refers to the amount of added spaces between lines of type.
• Originally, when type was set by hand for printing presses, printers placed slugs,strips of lead of various thicknesses,between lines of type to add space.

Text technology

1. Based on creating letters, numbers and special characters.
2. May also include special icon or drawing symbols, mathematical symbol, Greek letter etc[©™≈ƒ]
3. Text elements can be categories into:

• Alphabet characters: A-Z
• Numbers: 0-9
• special characters: Punctuation [. , ; ‘ …..] , Sign or symbols [*&^%$#@!…..]
• Also known Character Sets.

FONT VS TYPEFACE
Font

1. A ‘font’ is a collection of characters of a particular size and style belonging to a particular typeface family.
2. Usually vary by type sizes and styles.
3. The sizes are measure in points
4. This includes the letter set, the number set, and all of the special character and diacritical marks you get by pressing the shift, option, or command /control keys.

Typeface

1. A ‘typeface’ is a family of graphic characters that usually includes many type sizes and styles.
2. A typeface contains a series of fonts. For instance, Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow and Arial Unicode MS are actually 4 fonts under the same family.

• Arial
• Arial Black
• Arial Narrow
• Arial Unicode MS

FONT EFFECTS

The technology of font effects in bringing viewer’s attention to content

• Case : UPPER and lower cased letter
• Bold, Italic, Underline, Superscript and Subscript
• Embossed or Shadow
• colours
• Strikethrough

LEADING OF TEXT

• Spacing above and below a font or line spacing

TYPES OF FONTS

:Two classes of fonts

SERIF TEXT

• Decorative strokes added to the end of a letter’s
• Serifs improve readability by leading the eye along the line of type
• Serifs are the best suited for body text
• Serif faces are more difficult to read in small scale (smaller than 8pt) and in very large sizes.

SANS SERIF TEXT

• Sans serif faces doesn’t have decorative strokes
• A sans serif text has to be read letter by letter.
• Use sans serif faces for small (smaller than 8pt) and very large sizes
• Used for footnotes and headlines

TYPES OF FONTS: EXAMPLE

USING TEXT IN MULTIMEDIA

The text elements used in multimedia are:

• Menus for navigation
• interactive buttons
• Fields for reading
• HTML documents
• Symbols and icon

TEXT APPLYING GUIDELINES:

• Be concise
• Use appropriate fonts
• Make it readable
• Consider type style and colors
• Use restraint and be consistent

FONT EDITING AND DESIGN TOOLS

Text creating software:

ResEdit

• Introduced by Apple Text to design text as a bitmap image.

Fontographer

• Developed by Macromedia for Macintosh and Apple
• Use to edit the existing font
• Freehand drawing tools is used to design a font.

HYPERMEDIA

HYPERTEXT

HOW TEXT CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY

communicating data

• Customer names and address
• Pricing information of products

Explaining concepts and ideas

• A company mission statement
• A comparison of medical procedures

Clarifying other media

• Labels on button, icons and screens
• captions and callouts for graphics

ADVANTAGES

• Is relatively inexpensive to produce
• Present abstract ideas effectively
• Clarifies other media
• Provides confidentiality (password)
• Is easily changed or updated

DISADVANTAGES

• Is less memorable than other visual media
• Requires more attention from the user than other media
• can be cumbersome-not elegant in expression.

SUMMARY

1. Multimedia application and presentations invariably rely to some extent on the use of text to convey their message to users.
2. Text has many characteristics that the developer can modify to enhance the user expression.
3. Size,weight, typeface, style, colour, kerning, tracking, etc
4. Just like any other media, it requires careful planning and creativity.

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Ever fancied making or designing your own fonts? The free software listed on this page allow you to create and edit your own fonts.Depending on the software, the program may allow you to create a TrueType, OpenType, Postscript, bitmap / raster font, or some othertype of font.

For those who merely want to use free fonts rather than create their own fonts, please see theFree Fonts andFree Programmer's Fontspages instead. In addition, if you only want to create bitmap or raster fonts, you may also want to take a look at theFree Resource Editorspage, which may have some font editors to create and edit raster fonts.

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Free Font Designers and Editors

The free version of BirdFont lets you create vector graphics which can be exported intoTrueType (TTF) and monochrome SVG fonts. Your fonts must be released under the SIL Open Font licence.The editor works under Windows, macOS, Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

(Alternatively, if you are a software programmer, you can download the source code for the software,which the developers have released under the GNU General Public License, and compile it yourself.The program is written in the Vala programming language, so you will need aVala compiler and supporting programs/files like aC compiler, the GLib 2GNOME library, among other things. The self-compiled executable can be used to create fonts which you canrelease in any way you like.)

FontForge is an outline font editor that allows you to create and edit TrueType, OpenType, Postscript, CID-keyed, Multi-master, CFF, SVG,and bitmap (BDF, FON, NFNT) as well as many Macintosh font formats. It has many features, including the ability for you to add hintsto your font, either manually or allowing the software to automatically generate hints. (Hints allow your fonts to still look goodat small font sizes.) You can also use the program to convert fonts from one format to another. The software is available forWindows, Mac OS X,Linux, VMS, and so on.

The Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType is a set of open source command line tools for building OpenType fontsfrom PostScript and TrueType font data. (Note that it does not have a glyph editor, so if you are looking for that,this is not the program you want; try one of the other software listed on this page.) You will need to have aPython interpreter installed onyour system to use the software. It is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

This is a simple raster font editor that lets you create bitmap fonts. You can save your raster fonts as font resources (fnt), a resource script (rc),Windows bitmaps (bmp) and text files (txt). It is a Windowsprogram.

The GNU Font Editor is a graphical font editor derived from GIMP (see theFree Drawing and Painting Software, Image and Photo Editing Programspage for details of this). At present, it is available only in source form.

Font Editing And Design Tools In Multimedia Software

DoubleType is an open source TrueType font editor for any system with aJava runtime system, whichincludes Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

Type light is an OpenType font editor that handles both .ttf (TrueType) and .otf (OpenType PostScript) fonts.Your fonts can have up to 65536 glyphs, which can be mapped to Unicode characters. Besides creating yourfonts using the basic drawing tools, you can also edit TrueType and PostScript curves, convert fonts between TrueTypeand PostScript fonts, and enter basic font names, descriptions and parameters.

Did you know that Windows XP/Vista/7 comes with a font editor? You don't have to download anything.It's already on your computer if you're running Windows XP, Vista or 7. (I'm not sure about laterversions.) To access it, just click the Run command from your Start menu. In the window that appears,type 'eudcedit' (without the quotes) and click the OK button. The editor is primitive at best. Informationabout how to use it can be found in the Help menu of the program.

[Update: this program is no longer available.]Font Constructor is a Mac program that lets you construct your own font. The font can be exported as an .otf file (aPostScript TrueType font). At the time this review was written, the software does not support kerning or hinting.

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