Type / / Session 1

This whole module deals with Type in relation to print.

TimesNewRoman designed in 1932

Classification:

Linotype:

Talks about how we describe typefaces.  Classified as: transitional / slab serif /  black letter and broken / modern / old style / decorative and display / script and brush (FIND SOURCE)  A way of classifying for assigning identity to type.  

No real classification of type now.  All type is digitalised, been created on computer rather than by hand.  This is the reason why there are a lot of typefaces.

Catherine Dixon:

Source

Formal Attributes

Patterns.

Typographers to read-up on:

Licko

Ruder

Frutiger

Tschicold

Huxley

Stanley Morison

Dair

Gaudy

Sebastian Carter

Key programme: QuarkExpress

Easy to use for simple print jobs.

Remember H&J's- how sentences break.  IMPORTANT when working with editorial or large amounts of type.

SHORTCUTS

CMD / / SHIFT

ALT / / CMD / / SHIFT

Key aspect of each letter helped form the patter.  Using the anatomy of the type.  Look at key characteristics of each individual letter.

Some self-led letterform pattern designs: