Month: October 2015

[p3]: 1

Garamond

-Serif
-Claude Garamond
-Designed in the 16th century
-Garamond also designed Granjon and Sabon
-Thicker tails, stem, and shoulders with thinner strokes for bars, cross bars, and terminals
-Family members: Regular, Italic, Bold

Typography

Old Style- style of serif font developed by Renaissance typographers to replace the Blackletter style of type.

examples: 4OldStyleFonts

Transitional- represents the initial departure from centuries of Old Style tradition and immediately predate the Modern period.

examples: Transitional1

Modern- represents the initial departure from centuries of Old Style tradition and immediately predate the Modern periods

examples: fashion_mastheads

Slab Serif- the serifs are square and larger, bolder than serifs of previous typestyles. Considered a sub-classification of Modern

examples: SlabSerif

Sans Serif- type which does not have serifs — the little extra strokes found at the end of main vertical and horizontal strokes of some letterforms

examples: sansserifwebsafe

Stroke Weight- The main diagonal portion of a letterform such as in N, M, or Y is the stroke.
Axis- An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes

Lining Figures- approximate capital letters in that they are uniform in height, and generally align with the baseline and the cap height

Non-aligning figures- designed to simulate the x-height of lowercase letters

Ligatures- Two or more letters are joined together to form one glyph or characters

[p2]: final

For project 2 I designed a typeface called Funky Pixel. To communicate its attributes I had to design a fold-up brochure to display its funky, retro energy. The final deliverables for the project were two large format prints of a 16 page, double parallel fold brochure/poster with a sheet size of 21 x 24.5 inches. My typeface was inspired by pixelation and 70’s album covers and can be downloaded on fontstruct.

IMG_0400 IMG_0583 (1) IMG_0410 IMG_0599 copy Social media infographic flyer

behance link