Typography and the History of Design

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Typography and the History of Design
with asides about code, literacy, and other cool subjects

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Next Assignment.
Design a system of ten solid shapes, related in design and roughly equal mass, that interact to form a mock alphabet. Try and make the negative (white) space formed by the shapes as interesting as the shapes themselves.
This exercise is seen at the typophile site. Read thru this exercise and see his examples. You will be tweaking with your design to create differing "fits" within the following fonts. If any of these fonts are unavailable on your machine, let me know.
Bondoni
Century Gothic
Chancery

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A Sense of Type
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Different Typefaces have different impacts.
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Check out Esperfonto
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.. your single concern should be about a good match between the style, semantics, and intended impact of your text and corresponding properties of the typeface it uses. You can't set Shakespeare plays in a sans serif font (even of the "humanist" variety), and fragile Modern serifs are not appropriate for a pushy advertisement message.
Ref
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What type would you use? And why?
To design a children's web site in support of a cartoon show?
To design a politics course at a University?
To design a financial information document?
To design a modern art museum's site and brochure? Investigate online sites of similar contexts and see if your judgements correspond.
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