-- What are small capitals? How are they different than something set in ALL CAPS?
Small Caps are not just smaller capital letters, but are actually specifically designed small capitals. Simple using a reduced font size of a capital letter can cause its appearance to become too light, and can affect the width of a character. Therefore, using a Small Capital font ensures the best appearance of small capital letterforms.
-- Does your font have small caps? If not name a font that does.
No. 'Whitney' is a font that DOES.
-- Ligatures? why are they used? when are they not used? what are common ligatures?
A ligature occurs when two letters overlap one another when typed side by side, so a new letterform is created to fit both, such as an intersecting 'f' and 'i', the terminal of the f will be combined with the dot of the i. So, two letters are drawn to form one letter.
-- Does your font have ligatures? If not name a font that does.
Yes!
-- Difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
The foot mark is a single slanted, straight line, and the apostophe is curled.
-- Difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
An inch mark is two slightly slanted, straight lines, and a quote mark is two curled apostrophes.
-- Hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used.
Hyphens must be used for justifying text.
En-dashes are used between dates (2004 – 2005) (space on either side)
Em-dashes are the longest and are used for interrupting thoughts within other thoughts. (no space on either side)
Puncation rules:
"An em-dash is typically used as a stand-in for a comma or parenthesis to separate out phrases—or even just a word—in a sentence for various reasons
An en-dash is used to connect values in a range or that are related. A good rule is to use it when you're expressing a "to" relationship.
A hyphen is used to join words in a compound construction, or separate syllables of a word, like during a line break, or (self-evidently) a hyphenated name."
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