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Why is the space between lines called leading, and which everyday word began as a printers' name for a metal plate? These graphic design trivia questions cover the craft itself, with the source linked beside each answer.
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Color, letters and posters
Color on screen and in print asks why inks subtract and screens add, and who Ben Day was. Letters and type is the anatomy of a letter: serif, baseline, ascender, counter, and the gap called a river. Posters, signs and design history runs from a printed scroll of the year 868 to the peace symbol and the school that moved to Dessau.
On paper and on screen
Paper and printing terms covers bleed, recto, the octavo fold and the feathered edge of a sheet of paper. Layout, images and file kinds sets pixels against curves and asks what a favicon, a wireframe and a skeuomorph are.
- For a design class, run Letters and type with a book open on the table, and have each team point to the part.
Questions and answers
What are some easy graphic design trivia questions?
What is a serif? What does an image's aspect ratio compare? What does monochrome mean? The answers are a small stroke at the end of a larger stroke of a letter, its width and its height, and made of one color.
What is the difference between CMYK and RGB?
RGB is an additive model: red, green and blue light are added together, and all three at full strength give white. CMYK is a subtractive model used in color printing, where inks reduce the light reflected from white paper.
What is the difference between raster and vector graphics?
A raster image is a rectangular grid of tiny pixels, as in a digital photo. Vector graphics are made from geometric shapes such as points, lines and curves, which are described by mathematical formulas.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 13, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked beside it, one article to a question. No typeface, software maker or brand logo is a question or an answer.