Task ONE
Contemporary and Traditional
Knowing your terminology in type
and Andrew Haslama very useful book.
thinking with type anatomy.
Knowing the part of the letters
between two parallel lines.
Bodoni typeface
lowercase Bodoni typefaces.
typefaces. Page on Bondoni typeface.
Bodoni
Giambattista bodoni of Parma, Italy was one of the most prolific type designers. In his earlier years he copied Fournier buts in his later years carried the modern face to its logical conclusion. His serifs are both flat and unbracketed, the stress is mathematically vertical and the thins are hairlines. Bondoni believed in plenty of white space (many designers believed in white space especially the Italian typographer Massimo Vignelli )and therefore descenders are long.
The M is narrow,
in the Q the tail at first descends vertically
and the R has a curled tail.
In lower case the g has a small bowl
and the W, in this version,no middle serif.
The italic, like all continental modern faces, has a roman serifs. The eighteenth century medial V and W may be noted.
The typeface is classified as Didone modern. Bodoni followed the idea of John Baskerville and paid close attention to other designers such as French type founders Pierre Simon Fournier and Firmin Didot. Giambattista Bodoni gained major influences from these designers and without a doubt Bodoni found his own style for his typefaces, which deservedly gained worldwide acceptance among printers.
Although there were many concerns in the digital version of typography some of the letters of thick and thin stroke became difficult to alternate. In particular the Uppercase R became "dazzle", which means the thin strokes being very thin at small point sizes.
I recommend that if anyone draws up this particular font, they will defiantly need to have a talented controlling hand because the lower cases Bodoni have a thin strokes which makes it look really elegant and beautifully done. Also this particular serif font has an extra tail which makes it look different compared to other fonts at this present. This is a typical Italian calligraphy. The only disadvantage would be that if the typeface decreases into a smaller size would the tail part on the typeface disappear out of our sight.
uses all uppercase Bodoni typefaces.
of Bodoni typeface.
Aligned right, centred and diagonally.
Good times typeface
Ray Larabie is a prolific designer of computer Truetype and Opentype font, in the beginning in 1996. Larabie distributed his designs over the internet as freeware, operating as his own independent type foundry Larabiefonts.
Larabie became interested in fonts in the early 70’s when his grandmother gave him sheets of Letraset . He eventually became familiar with typefaces, and could identify hundreds of fonts by name. He began creating typefaces with pen and paper and later, on his first computer, a TRS-80.
Larabie was employed at Rockstar Toronto and had contributed his design prowess to multiple video game titles, including the hit series Grand theft auto and Max Payne, before he quit the company in 2002 to focus full-time on type design.
Many of his designs were inspired by corporate and rock band logos.
Why am i interested in this particular typeface?
If u take a look at certain characters, the curve on certain letter are unusual. It doesn't look to square or round, it has the both genetic typeface, and also wanted to point out that the tails on some of the characters tucks back in which i admire too, it is a typeface that i often use in my work.
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