Deck 2: Creating Text and Gradients

Question 1

Press [Ctrl] (Win) or [Command] (Mac) to toggle between a type tool and the selection tool.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In the above figure, number 1 points to an example of tracking.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Even after text is converted to outlines, you can still change the typeface.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Positive tracking or kerning values move text characters closer together.

Question 5

Hidden objects print when visible objects are printed.

Question 6

If you plan to scale type, you should change its font size in the Character panel, if necessary, before converting to outlines.

Question 7

Text in Illustrator can never be typed vertically.

Question 8

The midpoint, by definition, must be positioned evenly between the starting and ending colors of a gradient.

Question 9

Once text is flowed onto a path, only its typeface and type size can be modified.

Question 10

Dragging the center bracket is the easiest way to move text along a path.

Question 11

You can modify the tracking between letter pairs.

Question 12

If the preference that allows you to select text by clicking anywhere on the text is turned off, the only way to select text is by clicking on its baseline.

Question 13

The location of a midpoint in a gradient can be changed.

Question 14

A blend is a graduated transition between two or more colors used to fill an object or multiple objects.

Question 15

The Color panel has four color modes: CMYK, RGB, Grayscale, and HSB.

Question 16

Text flowed on a circle will often require kerning, especially when it is set at a large point size.

Question 17

A linear gradient can be positioned from left to right, top to bottom, or on any angle.

Question 18

When you click a type tool cursor on text and apply the Select All command, the text and all objects on the artboard are selected.

Question 19

Text flowed onto a curved path often presents kerning challenges.

Question 20

Instead of using sliders to create colors, you can type values directly in text boxes in the Color panel.

Question 21

When hidden objects revealed, they are all selected.

Question 22

Gradients created in one document cannot be used in a different document.

Question 23

Text you create by clicking the artboard is called art text.

Question 24

Gradients can be named and saved in the Color panel.

Question 25

A positive value for the distance of the text's baseline in relation to the path moves the text below the path.

Question 26

When you click the Gradient tool, the gradient control bar appears in the object itself.

Question 27

You can create text anywhere on the artboard.

Question 28

In the Gradient panel, the gradient slider has at least four colors.

Question 29

By definition, kerning affects the space between two characters.

Question 30

Most text-based applications now offer the ability to generate text vertically.

Question 31

Once a word has been tracked, you can no longer apply kerning.

Question 32

The midpoint is identified on the gradient slider by a triangle.

Question 33

You can define the angle of a radial gradient in the Gradient panel.

Question 34

A negative value for the distance of the text's baseline in relation to the path "floats" the text above the path.

Question 35

Hiding objects is one way of making it easier to select objects on the artboard.

Question 36

When you convert text to outlines and apply a gradient fill, the gradient automatically fills each letter individually.

Question 37

When text is flowed into an object, you can no longer use the Direct Selection tool to distort the shape.

Question 38

In the above figure, number 2 points to an example of a 50% horizontal scale has been applied to the text, which means that the text was wider before the scale was applied.

Question 39

Once text has been flowed into an object, you can still manipulate the fonts and font size of the object.

Question 40

A single word can be both tracked and kerned.

Question 41

Case Based Critical Thinking
Mark's design team has taken on a number of projects that involve display text and gradients.Mark considers typography to be a fine art, and he thinks that gradients are often a very effective component of good Illustrator design, so he is excited to take this opportunity to put his team through typography and gradient boot camp.
One of Mark's designers is having difficulty with tracking and kerning - specifically, when to use tracking and when to use kerning.Mark asks four other designers to provide an analogy for tracking and kerning.He is pleased with all four analogies, but he says that the best of the four analogies is that tracking is to kerning as ____.

A)group is to individual
B)hugging is to pinching
C)book ends are to books
D)brushing is to flossing

Question 42

The Unlock All command is under which menu on the Menu bar?

A)Edit
B)Object
C)Select
D)Window

Question 43

Which of the following can be created using the Paste in Back command?

A)pull quote
B)drop cap
C)drop shadow
D)linear gradient

Question 44

When text on a path is "flipped," it does what?

A)It runs in the opposite direction on the opposite side of the path.
B)It runs in the same direction on the opposite side of the path.
C)It is copied over an imaginary vertical or horizontal axis.
D)It is rotated 360 degrees.

Question 45

Gradients that you create can be saved with a name of your choice.

Question 46

Which of the following is the best comparison to a radial gradient?

A)a circle
B)a small circle within a big circle
C)a chain of interlocked circles
D)a series of concentric circles

Question 47

When you click the Show All command, all the hidden objects are selected when they are revealed.

Question 48

Case Based Critical Thinking
Mark's design team has taken on a number of projects that involve display text and gradients.Mark considers typography to be a fine art, and he thinks that gradients are often a very effective component of good Illustrator design, so he is excited to take this opportunity to put his team through typography and gradient boot camp.
Mark knows that his designers aren't programmers, but he feels it's important that a designer has some amount of understanding of how a program works.He asks his team to create a linear gradient without using any of the gradient tools.His team could use which of the following to create the gradient?

A)stroked lines and gradient meshes
B)filled rectangles and gradient meshes
C)stroked lines and filled rectangles
D)​Outline text and filled shapes

Question 49

The specification for all body copy in a series of ten related fliers - all designed in Illustrator - calls for 11pt type with 12.5pts leading and -10 tracking.One of the designers flows body copy text into the main text box on flier number five, formats it, then realizes that one paragraph is overflowing the text box.He tells Mark how he solved the problem, and Mark tells him that, of all the choices he had for fitting the text, he chose the worst option in terms of the overall design of the total project of ten fliers.The designer's bad choice was to ____.

A)cut body copy to fit the space
B)reduce the overall leading
C)apply negative tracking
D)​apply negative kerning

Question 50

The most recently created object is automatically placed above all the other objects on the artboard.

Question 51

When you float your cursor near the endpoint of the gradient control bar, the ____ icon appears.

A)flip
B)rotate
C)scale
D)copy

Question 52

Kerning is less useful for large headlines than it is for body copy because larger text seldom requires kerning.

Question 53

When text is flowed into an object, which alignment often is the best solution?

A)left
B)right
C)center
D)justified

Question 54

Text can be flipped across a path by dragging the center bracket of the text across the path.

Question 55

Tracking inserts uniform spaces between characters to affect the width of selected words or entire blocks of text.

Question 56

The colors used in a gradient are represented in the Gradient panel by small house-shaped icons called locations.

Question 57

The Stroke panel is where you move sliders to mix new colors for fills, strokes, and gradients.

Question 58

Text preferences are listed under what category?

A)Type
B)Units & Undo
C)Guides & Grid
D)Type & Grid

Question 59

All open Illustrator documents are listed at the bottom of the Window menu.

Question 60

Once text is flowed into an object, you can no longer manipulate the object as you would have previously.

Question 61

When text is flowed on a path, which feature of the Character panel allows you to increase or decrease the distance of the text from the path?

A)vertical scale
B)baseline shift
C)the Offset Path command
D)the Marquee tool

Question 62

Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
The Hide Selection command and the Show All command are both on the ____________________ menu.

Question 63

Gradients are created and modified where?

Question 64

For ____ gradients, where you begin dragging and where you end dragging determines the length of the blend from starting to ending color.

A)linear
B)radial
C)graded
D)both a and b

Question 65

You can quickly change font, type size, kerning and other text attributes on which panel?

A)Type
B)Character
C)Paragraph
D)Formats

Question 66

Text created with the Type tool can be filled with which type of gradient?

A)linear only
B)radial only
C)linear and radial
D)text cannot be filled with a gradient

Question 67

By default, the Vertical Type tool is hidden behind which tool?

Question 68

In the figure above, number 1 is pointing to the vertical distance between the two lines.What is that called?

Question 69

In typography, the term for the vertical space between baselines in a block of text is called what?

A)tracking
B)kerning
C)baseline shift
D)leading

Question 70

Text alignment, text indents, and spaces after paragraphs can all be modified in which panel?

Question 71

What are color stops?

Question 72

Case Based Critical Thinking
Mark's design team has taken on a number of projects that involve display text and gradients.Mark considers typography to be a fine art, and he thinks that gradients are often a very effective component of good Illustrator design, so he is excited to take this opportunity to put his team through typography and gradient boot camp.
Mark considers gradients to be an important design component for many types of Illustrator artwork.Which of the following would he most likely not discuss when advising his team about gradients?

A)experimenting with radial and linear styles
B)filling multiple objects simultaneously
C)using multiple colors
D)tracking and kerning

Question 73

When you click a type tool cursor on text, then apply the Select All command, ____.

A)all the text in the single text object is selected
B)all the text objects on the page are selected
C)the text and the object that contains the text are both selected
D)all of the objects on the artboard are selected

Question 74

The point at which two colors in a gradient meet is called what?

A)the color stop
B)the starting color
C)the ending color
D)the midpoint

Question 75

In the Gradient panel, the leftmost color is called what?

A)the color stop
B)the starting color
C)the ending color
D)Base 1

Question 76

Enter the appropriate word(s) to complete the statement.
The command to show the Character panel is on the ____________________ menu.

Question 77

Text generated by the Type tool is positioned on a path called what?

A)text path
B)baseline
C)stroke line
D)type index

Question 78

In a radial gradient, the starting color appears where?

A)at the center of the gradient
B)at the outside edge of the gradient
C)halfway between the center and the edge of the gradient
D)it depends on how the Gradient tool is applied

Question 79

Case Based Critical Thinking
Mark's design team has taken on a number of projects that involve display text and gradients.Mark considers typography to be a fine art, and he thinks that gradients are often a very effective component of good Illustrator design, so he is excited to take this opportunity to put his team through typography and gradient boot camp.
One project that the team is working on involves display type that will appear very large on a billboard.Mark tells the team that, of all the ways to modify text in Illustrator, ____ is the most essential for perfecting large display type.

A)horizontal/vertical scaling
B)baseline shift
C)tracking
D)kerning

Question 80

Text is flipped across a path by doing what?

A)Dragging the center bracket straight up or down
B)Double-clicking the Reflect tool
C)Double-clicking the Rotate tool
D)Dragging the starting bracket down