Design Principles

Type looks like the way it does because of the way it was produced first.

Stone - to chisel into stone you couldn't go straight in, you had to go on a slant, which creates a bracket seen on Times Roman.

Sable - was a brush stroke with ink which creates the smooth letter form.

Bone - quills created different line weights and stroke.

Wood - blocks of wood create the chunky look and black ink was used, later it was mechanically produced, which was lead based fonts. Upper case and lower case is called that because they literally would be in the upper case and lower case on the shelves.

Metal - mor controllable, different scales, resources, faster production, robust finer type.

Silicone - microchip allowed us to take our type in the digital world which created thousands more typefaces and ideas.

TASK

With the three fonts I chose, we had to group them together with other people's into the 6 different types of font, working out where they originated from.

 

These were quick manipulations we did as a group to different fonts. It's interesting to see how different people approach ways of changing a letter form.