Typefaces + Bembo

Old style (Gerald) – considered warm, friendly, shorter “x” height scooped serifs –Bembo, Calson, Garamond, Jenson, Palatino

Transitional – copperplate engravings – fine, rich, thick to thin, sharper serifs and a more vertical axis – Bakerville, Caslon, Perpetua

Modern (Didone) – technical exactness, thin straight serifs, sharp contrast from think to thin strokes -- Bodoni, Bauer Bodoni, Walbaum

Slab Serif (square Serif / Egyptian) - attracting attention, bold, decorative, heavy slab serifs – Serifa, Rockwell, Memphis Clarendon, New Century Schoolbook

Sans Serif (geometric) – Bauhaus movement, circular, geometric letters. Variation in stroke thickness, built around geometric forms – Futura, Folio, Gotham, Avant Gard

Script - fluid stroke created by handwriting, loose, causal, and similar to cursive – French script, Kuenstler, palace script, Vivaldi

Blackletter (gothic script) cursive style, bookhand script, heavy angular– American Text, Cloister Black, Fraktur, Goudy Text

Grunge – mixture of type, not systematic, random markings, not clean , messy, --fall, kreepy krawly, Nobby, tiza

Monospaced all glyphs have the same width, similar to a manual typewriter, used for computer codes– Courier, Consolas, Fixed, Andale Mono

Undeclared random category, may pertain some characteristics of other categories but do not fit within the parameters to be grouped with any category- Tema Cantante, Grasset, Kahana, Braggadocio

~BEMBO~

Serif

by Francesco Griffo

around 1495.

Old Style

Family members – Regular, Italic, Semibold, Semibold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic

Behance account!

http://www.behance.net/Kelsey_Allen

BEHANCE!!!

I have create a behance account where my work will be presenting to look at my weather interpreted final project is up now!

The man who knows his fonts, Adrian Frutiger

Born in Switzerland, a legend to the typeface world. The basic fonts are sometimes forgot about when thinking how were these created and designed? Adrian Frutiger is to thank for the basic fonts that are used very regularly throughout this day and age. “Breaking the rules” so to say is how real artist become legendary, Adrian Frutiger is one of these “rule-breakers” growing up in swiss schools with the typical cursive font He began experimenting new initiative fonts without the formal aspect. He advanced his name into the art and printing industry when writing a history paper on western lettering. Graduating from school he then worked in Paris aiding in translating classic typefaces. as well as creating his own style one of which included Univers in 1957. Univers was a response to the typeface Futura, with this typeface Frutiger introduces the revolutionary two-digit numbering system including the faces width and weight. Univers was the first typeface to use a numbering system and it also can be defined by a grid, which broke away from the normal, bold, and italic fonts of the past. The grid allows for more space and detail. The definition for the grid by Frutiger, “Frutiger likens it to a star; in the centre, there is a basic font face marked with number 55. Adjacent on the left and the right , are one unit higher or lower faces with always broader or narrower characters, but always with a ductus (stroke width) of the same thickness. On the other hand, there are adjacent faces in an upward or downward direction that are a tenth lower or higher with a ductus (stroke width) of equal thickness. Odd numbers mark the upright faces while even numbers mark the oblique faces. All characters are therefore logically connected and derive from one “prototype”.” (http://kaitlynmackey.blogspot.com/2008/09/adrian-frutiger.html)

Visc 204 Gestural Drawing

OH MAN have I tried everything to try and generate this Beaver !! everything I see now is turning into a beaver lol :) joy of graphic projects! But oh do I enjoy them!

Blog (wednesday aug 25 questions)

1. define weight - is the overall thickness of the strokes, in relation to their height. Weight varies the voice of the text, heavier weight causes more dominace of that text over the lighter weighted words. Weight is changed to enhance rhythm or emphasize particular words

2. define width - how wide the letterforms in a typeface are in relation to their height. Width is based on a square dimension of the letter.

3. define style - serif and san serif ( lines on the end of a font), they typeface's historical classification and the visual idiosyncrasies related to its historical context, and lastly specific form-variations that the designer has imposed on the letters (ex. neutral or stylized)

4. Type is measured in points on a computer and printing is measured in picas

5. Point is is the smallest unit of measure, also referred to as a dot grapheme ( 1/72 of an inch, .35 mm,)

6. Pica is made up of 12 points

7. 6 picas to an inch

8. 6 inches tall

9. 6 picas

10. 12 points

11.X-height is the are between the baseline and the mean line in a typeface - half way of on capital letters and where the lowercase letters end

12. Cap height - the top of the capital letter above the baseline

13. Leading - the space vertically between lines of text

*VISC 204 Assignment 1*

Excited to get started with this project! Although it seems intense I feel it will greatly better my skills of taking a single object and portraying it in many different ways! My animal is a beaver and I have already tried to explore many options with how I can resemble such a creature! I still need time and lots of thought until the final icon is selected excited to work on sketching and get the project going!