Typography task 1

09/26/2023 - 10/24/2023 (week1-week4)
jovan cornelius irwan/0364526.
typography/Bachelor of Design (honours) in creative media /taylor's university
Task 1

LECTURE

Week 1:
Typo_0_Eportofolio Briefing

Firstly,our lecturer told us to make e-portfolio they gave us video tutorial how to make e-portfolio by using blogger. Afterthat our lecturer ask the students to give a word, there are 11 words but we need to vote. After voting there are 6 words selected thereafter we need to pick 4 of 6 words and create an idea from these words

Typo_0_Introduction

typography is the creation of typefaces or type families. Typography is also a animation. It can come in animation, animated forms such as the beginning movie titles or gif animation. typography is visible and prevalent in website designs. Typography as well understanding way finding and navigation. Understanding where to place it of a physical space to place.

Typo_1_Development
Early letterform development: Phoenician to Roman

Tool that you hold in your hand has a major role on the type of writing that is created.

Soft clay and stone is one oof the instrument to create the forms

The Greeks change direction of writing. Phoenicians, like other semitic peoples, wrote form right to left.

The Greek developed a style of writing called 'boustrophedon' which meant that the lines of text alternately from right to left and left to right. They also changed the direction of reading and the orientation of the letterforms

revolution of foundation letter A

Square capitals were the written version that can be found in Roman monuments

rustic capital took far less time to write up the pen or brush was held at an angle of approximately 30 degrees of perpendicular

Uncials contained elements of the Roman cursive hand, particularly in the shape of the letters A, D. E. H, M, U, and Q.

half uncials a more formalized cursive hand; formally began the development in use of lowercase letterforms

caloline miniscule In 789, Charlemagne, Europe's first unifier since the Romans, issued an order standardising all church writings.

The fragmentation of Charlemagne's realm resulted in regional variations on Alcuin scripts.

A condensed, sharply vertical letterform known as 'Blackletter' or 'textura' had acquired favor in the Northern Areas

Text type classification

Typeface Development / Timeline

Classification of text types (Origin dates estimated to the closest quarter century)

Fig 1.18 1750 (Transitional)

Fig 1.17 1550 (Script)

Fig 1.14 1450 (Blackletter)

Fig 1.16 1500 (Italic)

Fig 1.15 1475 (Oldstyle)

Week 2:
Type_3_Text_P1

Typography: Text/Tracking: Kerning and Letterspacing

Kerning refers to the automatic adjustment of space between letters. In fact that the spacing needs to add space between the letters.
the addition and removal of space in word or sentence is refer as 'Tracking'

Formatting Text

Flush Left

The text are aligned to the left of the paragraph

Flush Right

The text are aligned to right of the paragraph

Justified

The text are equally aligned

Type size : The size of the font

Leading : space between lines of text

Line Length : distance between left and right

Week 3
Typo_4_Text_Part 2

Text

Indicating Paragraphs

Typographical used to identify a paragraph

Widows and Orphans

Widow is the end of the paragraph and orphan is a single word

Highlight Text

Headline within Text

Cross Alignment

Week 4
Typo_2_Basic

Baseline: the imaginary line the visual base of the letterforms
Median: the imaginary line defining the x-height of letterforms
X-height: the height in any typeface of the lowercase 'x'

Stroke: any line that defines the basic letterform

Apex / Vertex : Point that connect two strokes

Arm : A horizontal stroke at top or bottom

Ascender : A part in letterform in the upward side that extend above it.

Barb : Sharply pointed in a serif

Beak : Stroke on the end of the letterforms arms

Bowl : Rounded part of letterforms

Bracket : Curved connect between stem and serif

Cross Bar : The bar that connect two strokes

Cross Stroke : Bar that sit across the main letterform

Crotch : The part where two lines are connected together

Descender : Part of the letterforms that are extended

Ear : Small stroke

Em/en : The size of a letterforms

Finial : Curved end in letters

Ligature : Joined graphemes to make single glyph

Link : Stroke that connect top and bottom

Week 5

Typo_5_Understanding

This is Baskerville font , this letter form may seems symmetrical but its not

If we examine this closely , we can see the different between two stroke on the right and left side. The left side stroke is slightly thinner than the right side.

Those two letter 'a' may seems similar but in fact its different

INSTRUCTIONS

Task 1: Exercises - Type Expression

so I made the animation of word bounce I made the o like a tennis ball bouncing through n and b and fall between b and u also I made little effects like the line

Task 1 : Exercise 2 - Text Formatting

Kerning and Tracking

without kerning and tracking

with kerning and kerning

the difference between using kerning and tracking and without

Layout Exercise

This layout activity aims to help students comprehend the significance of text and image composition on a page/spread.

HEAD
Font/s: Futura Std Extra Bold Condensed Oblique
Type Size/s: 70pt and 30 pt

Leading:86pt
Paragraph spacing: 86pt

BODY
Font/s: Futura Std book
Type Size/s: 10pt
Leading: 12pt
Paragraph spacing: 12pt
Characters per-line: 56
Alignment: justify all line

Margins: 12.7mm top, 12,7mm left + 12,7 mm right + 12.7mm bottom
Columns: 3
Gutter: 4,233 mm

FEEDBACK

Week 1
watch video given by lecturer and try to make an idea by selected words

Week 2

general feedback: My lecturer told me to download all the fonts given because I had only downloaded a few fonts

Week 3

1.dive: my lecturer said that my design is too simple

2. Float: Mr. Vinod repair my design because he think my design is to messy

3. Bounce: my bounce too many effect

Week4

watch video lecture because i haven't watched the latest

Week5

make sure the layout according to rules of typography, especially line length and cross alignment

REFLECTIONS

Experience: From what I learned I have learned about alignment , fonts , kerning and tracking.

Observations: This lecture improves my tracking skill and widen my knowledge regarding typography

Findings: I found editing, photoshopping, sketching, enhanced my skill and passion in arts. This way I'm able to visualize my creativity along with the ideas i have in mind.

Book Title : The Vignelli Canon

summary:

I liked how this book was really thorough in explaining the small details of type. I personally would suggest this to the students who wanna learn more outside of the classes/pre-recorded lectures.

As the title of the book says, it primarily focuses on seeing type through screens. Most of what was said in the lectures were also included in here but also some other important points were made

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