Reflection on Text media and Information

Text media and information is all about text; how text is being used; the media of text and types of texts and file formats which is really important in our daily lives, more especially in media. Similar to visual media and information, the purpose of this is not just to attract readers, but in broaden the use of texts and its capabilities.
Text is a simple and flexible format of presenting information or conveying ideas whether handwritten, printed or displayed on screen. Text is being used in media as form of communication, to convey information, tells us about something and is used for signs.
There are types of texts and file formats. Hypertext served to link different electronic documents and enables users to jump from one to other in a non-linear way. Plain text are fixed sized characters having essentially the same type of appearance. Formatted text’s appearance ca be changed using font parameters such as bold, italic, underline, font size, font color, etc.
Typeface also called font, font type or type refers to the representation of a text in the digital format which is usually comprised of alphabets, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols and other special characters. The types of typefaces are serif, sans serif, slab serif, script and decorative. Serif connotes formality and readability in large amount of texts. Sans serif brings a clean or minimalistic look to the text. Slab serif carries solid or heavy look to text. Script draws much attention to its self because of its brush-like strokes. Lastly, decorative texts caters to a wide variety of emotions or themes. 
There are some common file formats that are usually being used. The text, document, rich text format, portable document format and post script. Text is an unformatted text document by an editor as notepad on windows platform. Document is a narrative format for storing documents created by Microsoft word package. Rich text format is a cross platform document exchange; default format for Mac OS X’s default editor. Portable document format was developed by Adobe systems for cross platform exchange of documents, supports image and graphics. Post script is a page description language used mainly for desktop publishing.