The Rules of Type

R TH E R U LE S OF TYPE

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C Professor Selby’s Typography 02 C The University of Kansas, Spring 2012C Designed by Drue Davis

THE RULES OF TYPE

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3C6. X-height

34. Hyphenation

42. Alignment

48. Justification

58. Combining Typefaces

68. Quotations, Apostraphes, & Dashes

74. Special Characters

92. Bullets

98. Numerals

102. Small Caps

108. Paragraph breaks

122. Headers, Subheads, & Crossheads

132. Captions & Notes

142. Font Specifications

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THE BASICSThe following is a compendium of the rules of type established in this book. You might want to check through these after completeting a publication.

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C Use only one space between sentences. C Use real quotation marks. C Use real apostrophes. C Make sure the apostrophes are where they belong. C Hang the punctuation off the aligned edge. C Use en or em dashes, use consistently. C Kern all headlines where necessary. C Never use the spacebar to align text, always set tabs and use the tab key. C Leave no widows or orphans. C Avoid more than 3 hyphenations in a row. C Avoid too many hyphenations in any paragraph. C Avoid hyphenating or line brakes of names and proper nouns. C Leave a least 2 characters on the line and 3 following. C Avoid beginning consecutive lines with the same word. C Avoid ending consecutive lines with the same word. C Avoid ending lines with the words: the, of, at, a, by.

C Never hyphenate a words in a headline and avoid hyphenation in a callout.C Never justify the text on a short line. C Keep the word spacing consistent. C Tighten up the leading in lines with all caps or with few ascenders and descenders. C Use a one-em first-line indent on all indented paragraphs. C Adjust the spacing between paragraphs. C Either indent the first line of paragraphs or add extra space between them – not both. C Use a decimal or right-aligned tab for the numbers in numbered paragraphs. C Never have one line in a paragraph in the column or following. C Never combine two serif fonts on one page. C Rarely combine two sans serif fonts on one page. C Rarely combine more than three typefaces on one page. C Use the special characters whenever necessary, including super- and subscript. C Spend the time to create nice fraction or chose a font that has fractions. C If a correctly spelled word needs an accent mark, use it.

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X-HEIGHTReadability and legibility are two key elements of printed text that typographers strive to maximize.

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READABILITY EXTENDED AMOUNT OF TEXT—SUCH AS AN ARTICLE, BOOK, OR ANNUAL

REPORT—IS EASY TO READ.

Legibility refers to whether an refers to whether a short burst of text—such as a headline catalog listing, or stop sign—is instantly recognizable. There are several factors that determine whether a text is readable. When deciding what typeface should be used for a job, consideration should be given to the typeface and its x-height. It is important to understand how a block of text can express a message through its texture/color, therefore suiting a particular design solution. Fonts set in the same size, same leading and column width will produce varying de-grees of “color.” In typography, color can also describe the balance between black and white on the page of text. A typeface’s color is determined by stroke width, x-height, character width and serif styles.

AS A DESIGNER, IF YOU ARE ONLY ASKED TO MAKE THE TEXT READABLE ON THE PAGE

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ASKED:

Readability and legibility are two key elements of printed text that typographer strive to maximize. Readability extended amount of text—such as an article, book, or annual report—is easy to read. Legibility refers to whether an refers to whether a short burst of text—such as a headline catalog listing, or stop sign—is instantly recognizable.There are several factors that determine whether a text is readable. When deciding what type-face should be used for a job, consideration should be given to the typeface and its x-height. It is important to understand how a block of text can express a message through its texture/color, therefore suiting a particular design solution. Fonts set in the same size, same leading and column width will produce varying degrees of “color”.In typography, color can also describe the balance between black and white on the page of text. A typeface’s color is determined by stroke width, x-height, character width and serif styles.

AS A DESIGNER, IF ONLY ASKED TO MAKE THE TEXT READABLE

ON THE PAGE THEN THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE ASKED:C Who is to read it? Someone that wants to read it? Someone that has to read it? C How will it be read?Quickly. In passing. Focused. Near. Far.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were charac-terized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrel-evant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected tra-ditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by empha-sizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweep-ing repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the auto-mobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repu-diation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and cel-ebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several succes-sive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural insti-tutions as museums and libraries.

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Guidelines on the appropriate use of hyphenation in headlines and body text.

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IN UNJUSTIFIED TEXT, THE TEXT BLOCK IS SET WITH

NORMAL LETTER AND WORD SPACING.

Because of the even word spacing the text will have an even texture—no large spaces between words. The lines will naturally vary in length. a ragged text block can integrate with the layout and add visual interest to the page. The difficulty is making the ragged edge have a pleasing sil-houette. When the first line in the text is longer than the second, it becomes separate from the layout and creates a box-like shape. This destroys one of the advantages of unjustified text. The ragged edge needs to have a life, but a narrow column can be less active. Another advantage to ragged text is less hyphenation is needed. Therefore, names, dates or words which are normally read together can stay together.

IMPORTANT HYPHENATION RULES:C How the text is read avoid widows (one word on the last line of a paragraph)C Avoid hyphenating or line brakes of names and proper nounsC Leave a least 2 characters on the line and 3 followingC Avoid beginning consecutive lines with the same wordC Avoid ending consecutive lines with the same wordC Avoid ending lines with the words: the, of, at, a, by...C Never hyphenate a words in a headline and avoid hyphenation in a callout

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WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

Never leave widows and orphans bereft on the page. Avoid both of these situations. If you have editing privileges, rewrite the copy, or at least add or delete a word or two. Sometimes you can remove spacing from the letters, words, or lines, depending on which program you’re work-ing in. Sometimes widening a margin just a hair will do it. But it must be done. Widows and orphans on a page are wrong.

WIDOWC When a paragraph ends and leaves fewer than seven characters (not words, characters) on the last line, that line is called a widow. Worse than leaving one word at the end of a line is leaving part of a word, the other part being paraphrased on the line above.

ORPHANC When the last line of a paragraph, be it ever so long, won’t fit at the bottom of a column and must end itself at the top of the next column, that is an orphan. ALWAYS correct this.

RIVERSC In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide word spaces caused by

either full text justification or monospaced fonts.

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HEADLINESThe following are examples of incorrect ways to hyphenate words within a headline and examples of the correct way.

Don’t hyphenate headliens. That’s a law.DON QUIXOTE DE LA MAN-

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Also, watch where the first line of a two-line headline ends—does it create a silly or mis-leading phrase? Fix it.PROFESSOR AND THE-

RAPIST TO LECTURE

Don’t leave widows (very short last lines) in headlines.MAN WALKS BAREFOOT ACROSS BAY

BRIDGE

The corrected headlineMAN WALKS BAREFOOT ACROSS BAY

BRIDGE

MAN WALKS BAREFOOT

ACROSS BAY BRIDGE

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BAD LINE BREAKS.Look for bad line breaks throughout every line of body copy. Of course, do this only on final copy, after all editing has been done! Here are several examples of the sorts of things to look for:

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Heresy borsch-boil starry a boarder borsch boil gamplate lung, lung a gore in-ner ladle wan-hearse torncoiled Mutt-fill.Mutt-fill worsen mush of-fer torn, butted hatter puttygut borsch-boil tame, an offoiler pliers honor tame, doormoist cerebrated worse Cas-ing. Casing wrsted sickened basement, any hatter betting orphanage off .526 (fife toesex).

Casing worse gut lurking an furry poplar–spatiallywetter gull coiled Any-bally.Any-bally worse Casing’ssweat-hard, any harpy cobblewandered toe gat merit,bought Casing worse toe poretoe becalm Any-bally’shorsebarn. (Boil pliers honorMutt-fill tame dint gat mushoffer celery infect, day gutnosing atroll.)

Butt less gat earn wetter star-ry

CASTING ADDER BAT

Heresy borsch-boil starry a boarder borsch boil gamplate lung, lung a gore innerladle wan-hearse torn coiled Mutt-fill.

Mutt-fill worsen mush offer torn, butted hatter puttygut borsch-boil tame, an off oiler pliers honor tame, door moist cerebrated worse Casing. Casing wrsted sick-ened basement, any hatter betting orphanage off .526 (fife toe sex).

Casing worse gut lurking an furry poplar–spatiallywetter gull coiled Any-bally.Any-bally worse Casing’ssweat-hard, any harpy cobblewandered toe gat merit, bought Casing worse toe porebecalm Any-bally’s horsebarn. (Boil pliers honor Mutt-fill tame dint gat mush offer celeryinfect, day gut nosing atroll.)

Butt less gat earn wetter starry

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8. “Horsebarn” is a good long word that could be hyphenated; type a dischy. Better yet, when “bought” moved up, it gave enough room to move “hore-barn” up. If not, try opening the text block or text box wee bit.

1. Justify the headline so it stays on line.

2. Use a line break (Shift Return) to bump “a” down to the next line, where it fits very nicely. 3. Kern the line a tiny bit to bring the rest of the word up.

4. Type a dischy in front of the word to bump it down.

5. Never hyphenate a person’s name. I had to go up a few lines, bump “off” down, which bumped the other line endings down. The also took care of the inappropriate widow in 6.

7. There is plenty of room to squeeze “bought” on this line, perhaps by kern-ing the line a tiny bit.

9. Edit: to get rid of that terrible widow, exchange a short word for a long word.

6. Never have widows.

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No matter what alignment you use, remember to pay close attention to hyphenation and word/character spacing as well to insure that your text is as readable as possible.

ALIGNMENT

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IN UNJUSTIFIED TEXT, THE TEXT BLOCK IS SET WITH NORMAL

LETTER AND WORD SPACING.

If someone insists that fully justified text is better than left-aligned text, tell them they are wrong. If someone else tells you that left-aligned text is better than justified text, tell them they are wrong.

IF THEY ARE BOTH WRONG, THEN WHAT’S RIGHT?

Alignment is only a small piece of the puzzle. What works for one design might be totally inappropriate for another layout. As with all layouts, it depends on the purpose of the piece, the audience and its expectations, the fonts, the margins and white space, and other elements on the page. The most appropriate choice is the alignment that works for that particular design.

THERE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE WELL-MEANING FRIENDS, BUSINESS ASSOCIATES,

CLIENTS, AND OTHERS WHO WILL QUESTION YOUR CHOICES.

Be prepared to explain why you chose the alignment you did and be prepared to change it (and make necessary adjustments to keep it looking good) if the person with final approval still insists on something different.

A COMMENT ABOUT CENTER ALIGNMENT:

C There is nothing inherently wrong with centered text. As with ragged right or fully-justified text alignment, what works for one design might be totally inap-propriate for another layout. There are simply fewer situations where centered text is appropriate. When in doubt, don’t center it.C As with all layouts, alignment depends on the purpose of the piece, the audi-ence and its expectations, the fonts, the margins and white space, and other elements on the page. The most appropriate choice is the alignment that works for that particular design.

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JUSTIFIED TEXT

Traditionally many books, newsletters, and newspapers use full-justification. They use this as a means of packing as much information onto the page as possible to cut down on the number of pages needed. While the alignment was chosen out of necessity, it has become so familiar to us that those same types of publications set in left-aligned text would look odd, even unpleasant. You may find that fully-justified text is a necessity either due to space constraints or expectations of the audience. If possible though, try to break up dense blocks of texts with ample subheadings, margins, or graphics.

CHARACTERISTICS:C Often considered more formal, less friendly than left-aligned text.C Usually allows for more characters per line, packing more into the same amount of space (than the same text set left-aligned).C May require extra attention to word and character spacing and hyphenation to avoid unsightly rivers of white space running through the text.C May be more familiar to readers in some types of publications, such as books and newspapers.C Some people are naturally drawn to the “neatness” of text that lines up perfectly on the left and right.

EXAMPLE:

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion.

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LEFT-ALIGNED, RAGGED RIGHT

In English and most European languages where words are read left-to-right, text is often aligned flush left, meaning that the text of a paragraph is aligned on the left-hand side with the right-hand side ragged. Ragged right text is considered more informal than fully justified text. Although flush left alignment is less likely to have typographic rivers or problems, common to fully justified text, care must be taken to prevent drastic changes in the length of the line. Abrupt changes from line to line makes the text difficult to read.

CHARACTERISTICS:C Often considered more informal, friendlier than justified text.C The ragged right edge adds an element of white space.C May require extra attention to hyphenation to keep right margin from being too ragged.C May be more familiar to readers in some types of publications, such as books and newspapers.C Generally type set left-aligned is easier to work with (i.e. requires less time, attention, and tweaking from the designer to make it look good).

EXAMPLE:

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion.

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J USTI FICATIONJ

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JUSTIFICATIONJustify text only if the line is long enough to prevent awkward and inconsistent word spacing.

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THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN SAFELY GET AWAY WITH JUSTIFYING TEXT IS IF YOUR TYPE IS

SMALL ENOUGH AND YOUR LINE IS LONG ENOUGH.

This is used in books where the text goes all the way across the page. If your line is shorter, as in newsletter, or if you don’t have many words on the line, than as the type aligns to the margins the words space themselves to accommodate it. It usually looks awkward. You’ve seen newspaper columns where all text is justified, often with a word stretching all the way across the column, or a little word on either side of the column with a big gap in the middle. Gross. But that’s what can happen with justified type. When you do it, the effect might not be as radical as the newspaper column, but if your lines are relatively short, you will inevitably end up with uncomfortable gaps in some lines, while other lines will be all squished together.

HERE IS A GENERAL GUIDELINE FOR DETERMINING IF YOUR LINE LENGTH IS LONG

ENOUGH TO SATISFACTORILY JUSTIFY THE TEXT:

The line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are using is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inches-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to justify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas, if you like.

JUSTIFIED TEXT WAS THE STYLE FOR MANY YEARS-WE GREW UP ON IT.

But there has been a great deal of research done on readability (how easy something is to read) and it shoes that those disruptive, inconsistent gaps between the words inhibit the flow of reading. Besides, they look dumb. Keep your eyes open as you look at professionally printed work (magazines, newsletters, annual reports, journals) and you’ll find there’s a very strong trend to align type on the left and leave the right ragged.

CHECKING FOR RIVERS:

C When your work comes out of the printer, turn it upside down and squint at it. The rivers will be very easy to spot. Get rid of them. Try squinting at the examples on the following pages.

JUSTIFICATION

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were character-ized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technol-ogy of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as muse-ums and libraries.


AKZIDENZ GROTESK

DIDOT

75. 90. 120.

75. 90. 120.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were character-ized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technol-ogy of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and politi-cal values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and cel-ebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and politi-cal values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as muse-ums and libraries.

AKZIDENZ GROTESK

DIDOT

85. 90. 95.

85. 90. 95.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were character-ized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new tech-nology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institu-tions as museums and libraries.


AKZIDENZ GROTESK

DIDOT

95. 100. 110.

95. 100. 110.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized the depiction of sev-eral successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted vio-lence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruc-tion of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were charac-terized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and move-ment. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

AKZIDENZ GROTESK

DIDOT

70. 75. 80.

70. 75. 80.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were character-ized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new tech-nology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institu-tions as museums and libraries.


AKZIDENZ GROTESK

DIDOT

95. 100. 130.

95. 100. 130.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were character-ized the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technol-ogy of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and politi-cal values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and cel-ebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glori-fied the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

AKZIDENZ GROTESK

DIDOT

85. 110.130.

85. 110.130.

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COMBINING TYPEFACESRestrict yourself to two typefaces within a document. The inclusion of multiple serif or sans serif typefaces will cause unwanted tension.

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WHEN COMBINING SERIF AND SANS SERIF TEXT FONTS, ONE SHOULD TRY

AND MATCH THESE CHARACTERISTICS:

Form, type color, proportion, and x-heights. Although there is not recipe there is a place to start: keep an eye on the characteristic shapes of the letterform. A well designed page contains no more than two different typefaces or four different type variations such as type size and bold or italic style (Using 2 different serif fonts or 2 different sans serifs fonts in the same composi-tion is never a good idea).

TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE TYPE COMBINATIONS:

C Go for high contrast: size, strength, and typographic colorC A sans serif typeface is easier to read at a glance, and, thus, more effective for headlines.C Serifs in a typeface facilitate the forward movement of reading, making serif typefaces an ideal choice for body copy

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WORDS IN LIBERTYA Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement.


aa BB ee GG gg

aa BB ee GG gg

C There is a visible contrast between these two typeaces, which is further punctuated by the bold style of the sans serif font. Both of these typefaces have organic aspect that compliment each other.

C This is a more prominent contrast between the two typefaces. The large x-height and bolding of sans serif typeface is easier to read than the body copy, which outlines a clear delineation in heirarchy.

OLD STYLE

9/12 Adobe GaramondOLD STYLE

9/12 Bembo

HUMANIST SANS SERIF

12/16 FrutigerGROTESQUE SANS SERIF

12/16 Akzidenz Grotesk


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WORDS IN LIBERTYA Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, and power.

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C Although there is a clear difference between the heading and the body copy, the stroke of futura seems a bit heavy, which creates a similar typographic color as the bold, enlarged title and creates tension.

C Both of these typefaces maintain organic attributes that compliment each other well. The humanist sans serif functions well as the body copy. Both are very approachable.

TRANSITIONAL

12/16 BaskervilleTRANSITIONAL

12/16 Bookman

GEOMETRIC SANS SERIF

9/12 FuturaHUMANIST SANS SERIF

9/12 Syntax


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Words in LibertyA Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement.

aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg

C Even though serif fonts are good choices for body copy, Modern typefaces like Bodoni were dedigned as display fonts. The variations in stroke and width contrasts with futura’s uniform width.

C This is a cobimation that demonstrates clear hier-archy. the title is easy to read and the modern serif typeface is more subdued, but legible

MODERN

12/16 Baur BodiniMODERN

9/12 Didot


9/12 FuturaGROTESQUE SANS SERIF

12/16 Akzidenz Grotesk (bold)


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Words In LibertyA Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, and power.

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C The large x-height of Futura creates a contrast with the small x0height of Mrs. Eaves

C The strenth of Akzindenz Grotesk as the body copey competes with thte header. This makes hei-rarchy hard to see.

NEW TRANSITIONAL

16/21 Mrs.EavesNEW TRANSITIONAL

21/24 Perpetua


9/12 FuturaHUMANIST SANS SERIF

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Words in LibertyA Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement.

aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg

C Memphis functions as a display font. Even though serif fonts are considered strong choices for body cioy, the slabs seem too bulky for legibil-ity. Futura contrasts this well.

C This solution uses the slab serif in the body copy. The typeface style light to improve legibility.

SLAB SERIF

16/21 MemphisSLAB SERIF

9/12 Rockwell


9/12 FuturaGROTESQUE SANS SERIF

12/16 Akzidenz Grotesk


67COM B I N I NG TYPE FACES

“There is not a binding recipe for type combinations. It is a matter of typographic sensitivity and experience. Expert typographers, as well as careless amateurs permit themselves combinations that would horrify colleagues with more traditional sympathies.”

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QUOTATIONS,APOSTRAPHES, & DASHES.The following are rules regarding the proper use of quotation marks, apostraphes, dashes, hyphens, em-dashes, and en-dashes.

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USIE REAL QUOTATION MARKS–

Never those grotesque generic marks that actually symbolize ditto/inch or foot marks: use “and” —not “and”. Most software applications will convert the typewriter quotes to the real quotes for you automatically as you type. Check the preferences for your application—you’ll find a check box to tell your application to automatically set something like “typographer’s quotes,” “smart quotes,” or “curly quotes.” Then as you type using the standard ditto key (“), the software will set the correct quotation marks for you.

BUT IT IS NECESSARY TO KNOW HOW TO SET THEM YOURSELF

BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE SOFTWARE DOES NOT ACTUALLY

DO IT OR DOES IT WRONG.

Opening double quote: “ Type: Option [Closing double quote: ” Type: Option Shift ]Opening single quote: ‘ Type: Option [Closing single quote: ’ Type: Option Shift ]

EXAMPLES:

Bridge Clearance: 16’ 7”The young man stood 6’ 2”The length of the wall is 153’9’’.

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APOSTRAPHE KEY COMMAND: ‘ + OPTION + SHIFT + ]Peopele are often confused about where the apostrophe belongs. These are a couple of rules that work very well. For possessives: Turn the phrase around. The apostrophe will be placed after whatever word you end up with. For example, in the phrase the boys’ camp, to know where to place the apostrophe say to yourself, “The camp belongs to the boys.” The phrase the boy’s camp says “The camp belongs to the boy.”

THE BIG EXCEPTION TO THIS IS “ITS.” C “Its” used as a possessive never has an apostrophe! The word it only has an apostrophe as a contraction—“it’s” always means “it is” or “it has.” Always.C It may be easier to remember if you recall that yours, hers, and his don’t use apostrophes —and neither should its.

FOR CONTRACTIONS: THE APOSTROPHE REPLACES THE MISSING LETTER.

For example: your’re always means you are; the apostrophe is replacing the a from are. That’s an easy way to distinguish it from your as in your house and to make sure you don’t say: Your going to the store. As previously noted, it’s means “it is”; the apostrophe is indicating where the i is left out. Don’t means “do not”; the apostrophe is indicating where the o is left out.

FOR OMISSION OF LETTERS:

In a phrase such as Rock ’n’ Roll, there should be an apostrophe before and after the n, because the a and the d are both left out. And don’t turn the first apostrophe around—just because it appears in front of the letter does not mean you need to use the opposite single quote. An apostrophe is still the appropriate mark (not ‘n’).

IN A PHRASE SUCH AS:C House o’ Fashion, the apostrophe takes the place of the f. There is no reason for an apostrophe to be set before the o.C Gone Fishin’ the same pattern is followed —the g is missing.

IN A DATE WHEN PART OF THE YEAR IS LEFT OUT, AN APOSTROPHE NEEDS TO

INDICATE THE MISSING YEAR. In the 80s would mean the temperature; In the ’80s would mean the decade. (Notice there is no apostrophe before the s! Why would there be? It is not possessive, nor is it a contraction—it is simply plural.


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DASHES

Never use two hyphens instead of a dash. Use hyphens, en dashes and em dashes properly. Everyone knows what a hyphens is—that tiny little dash that belongs in some words, like mother-in-law, or in phone numbers. It’s also used to break a word at the end of a line, of course you might have been taught to use a double hyphen to indicate a dash, like so : -- . This is a typewriter convention because typewriters didn’t have the real dash used in professional typesetting. On a Mac, no one needs to use the double hyphen—we have a professional em dash, the long one, such as you see in this sentence. We also have an en dash, which is a little shorter than the em dash.

THE BIG EXCEPTION TO THIS IS “ITS.” C “Its” used as a possessive never has an apostrophe! The word it only has an apostrophe as a contraction— “it’s” always means “it is” or “it has.” Always.C It may be easier to remember if you recall that yours, hers, and his don’t use apostrophes—and neither should its.

HYPHEN -

A hyphen is one third of the em rule and is used to link words. It serves as a compound modi-fier where two words become one, such as x-height. A hyphen is also used to break works at syllables in text blocks.

EN DASH - KEY COMMAND: OPTION + HYPHEN KEYAn en dash is half of the em rule (the width of a capital N) and is used between words that indicate a duration, such as time or months or years. Use it where you might otherwise use the word “to.” In a page layout application, the en dash can be used with a thin space on either side of it. If you want you can kern it so it is not a full space.

EM DASH - KEY COMMAND: SHIFT + OPTION + HYPHENThe em dash is twice as long as the en dash—it’s about the size of a capital letter M in the size and typeface you’re using at the time. This dash is often used in place of a colon or parentheses, or it might indicate an abrupt change in thought, or it’s used in a spot where a period is too strong and a comma is too weak.

Our equivalent on the typewriter was the double hyphen, but now we have a real em dash. Using two hyphens(or worse, one) where there should be an em dash makesyour look very unprofessional.

EXAMPLE:

October – December6:30 – 8:45 A.M.4 – 6 years of age

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SPECIALCHARACTERSThe following is a list of the most often-used special characters and accent marks. On the following pages are the key combinations for just about every accent you might need..

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Opening double quote

Closing double quote

Opening single quote

Closing single quote; apostrophe

En dash

Em dash

Ellipsis

Bullet

Ligature of f and i

Ligature of f and l

Ccopyright

Trademark

Registered trademark

Degree

Cent

Euro

Fraction bar

Upside-down exclamation point

Upside-down question mark

Pound

Cedilla

Capital cedilla

Acute

Grave

Trema

Tilda

Circumflex

“ Option [

“ Option Shift [

‘ Option ]

’ Option Shift ]

– Option Hyphen

— Option Shift Hyphen

… Option ;

• Option 8

fi Option Shift 5

fl Option Shift 6

© Option g

™ Option 2

® Option r

° Option Shift 8

¢ Option $

€ Option Shift 2

⁄ Option Shift 1

¡ Option 1 (one)

¿ Option Shift ?

£ Option 3

ç Option c

Ç Option Shift c

E´ Option Shift e

E` Option Shift ~

E ¨ Option Shift u

Ñ Option Shift u

Eˆ Option Shift c

SPECIAL CHARACTE RS

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81HHH “Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.”— Peter Bilak - Illegibility

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B U LLETSB

94QUOTATIONS, APOSTRAPH ES, & DASH ES

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BULLETSBullet, of course! This very useful typographic element can add emphasis, clarity and visual interest to all kinds of copy.

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SIMPLY PUT, A BULLET IS A LARGE DOT USED TO DRAW ATTENTION TO EACH ITEM IN A LIST

OR SERIES. THESE ITEMS CAN BE WORDS, PHRASES, SENTENCES OR PARAGRAPHS.

Even if you use the bullet that is part of your font, don’t automatically assume it’s the right size: it might need to be altered in scale or position to make it look balanced next to the text. Bullets should be centered on either the cap height or x-height, depending on the nature of your copy. If all of your items begin with a cap, center the bullet on the cap, or a bit lower so it balances with the negative spaces created by the lowercase. If your items all begin with lowercase characters, center the bullets on the x-height. Insert some space after the bullet to avoid crowding.

THE PREFERED WAY TO ALIGN BULLETS IS WITH THE LEFT MARGIN.

You can also have the bullets overhang the margin, and keep all your text aligned with the left margin. Whichever style you choose, your listing will look best if items that run more than one line are indented so that the copy aligns with itself, and not with the bullet on the first line.

TO BE MORE CREATIVE, SUBSTITUTE SYMBOLS OR

DINGBATS FOR THE ACTUAL BULLETS.C Try squares, triangles or check marks.C Don’t try multiple bullets together.C Keep bullets simple and in proportion to the rest of your text.

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DINGBATS AS BULLETS

Another occasion to take advantage of the baseline shift feature is when using dingbats or ornaments. Suppose you have a list of items and you really want to use a fancy dingbat from the Zapf Dingbats font, instead of using ol’ round bullet (or—heaven forbid—a hyphen). But the Zapf Dingbat character is too big. If you reduce its size, the dingbat is too low because the character is too big. If you reduce its size, the dingbat is too low because the character is still sitting on the baseline. So select the character and shift it up above the baseline.

PICK ANY THREE ADJECTIVES

TO DESCRIBE YOURSELF:

C lovely5 surlyE ghastlyT womanlyZ saintly3 ungodlyS statelyR sprightly



• lovely• surly• ghastly• womanly• saintly• ungodly• stately• sprightly

Choose a dingbat instead. Decrease the dingbat size........................................... ..........................................

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C lovelyC surlyC ghastlyC womanlyC saintlyC ungodlyC statelyC sprightly


TO DESCRIBE YOURSELF:C lovelyC surlyC ghastlyC womanlyC saintlyC ungodlyC statelyC sprightly

Raise the dingbat higher...........................................

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N U M E RALSN

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NUMERALSOldstyle figures are a style of numeral which approximate lowercase letterforms by having an x-height and varying ascenders and descenders.

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OLDSTYLE FIGURES ARE VERY USEFUL AND QUITE BEAUTIFUL WHEN SET WITHIN THE TEXT.

The more common “lining” (or “aligning”) figures which are all-cap height and typically mono-spaced in text faces so that they line up vertically on charts. Oldstyle figures have more of a traditional, classic look. They are only available for certain typefaces, sometimes as the regu-lar numerals in a font, but more often within a supplementary or expert font. The figures are proportionately spaced, eliminating the white spaces that result from monospaced lining figures, especially around the numeral one.

UNLIKE LINING FIGURES, THEY BLEND WITHOUT DISTURBING THE COLOR OF THE TEXT.

They also work well in headlines since they’re not as intrusive as lining figures. In fact, many people prefer them overall for most uses except charts and tables. It’s well worth the extra effort to track down and obtain typefaces with oldstyle numerals; the fonts that contain them might well become some of your favorites.

NOTICE HOW CLUNKY THESE NUMBERS APPEAR:

C Dear John, please call me at 438-9762 at 3:00 to discuss marriage. Or write to me at Route 916, zip code 87505

NOTICE HOW BEAUTIFULLY THESE NUMBERS BLEND:

C Dear John, please call me at 438-9762 at 3:00 to discuss marriage. Or write to me at Route 916, zip code 87505

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SMALL CAPSSmall caps are uppercase (capital) letters that are about the size of normal lowercase letters in any given typeface.

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SMALL CAPS ARE LESS INTRUSIVE WHEN ALL UPPERCASE APPEARS WITHIN NORMAL

TEXT OR CAN BE USED FOR SPECIAL EMPHASIS.

Computer programs can generate small caps for a any typeface, but those are not the same as true small caps. True small caps have line weights that are proportionally correct for the typeface, which me and that they can be used within a body of copy without looking noticeably wrong.

USE SMALL CAPS FOR ACRONYMSC Set acronyms such as nasa or nasdaq when they appear in body text. or headlines.C If you set acronyms in regular all caps, their visual presence is unnecessarily overwhelming. One standard and practical place to use small caps is in acronums such as fbi, nrc, cbs, or simm.

USE SMALL CAPS FOR COMMON ABBREVIATIONSC Set common abbreviations such as am or pm in small caps so they don’t overpower the accompanying text.C Use small caps for a.m. and p.m.; space once after the number, and use periods.C If the font does not have small caps reduce the font size slightly

USE TRUE SMALL CAPS FONTSC Avoid simply resizing capital letters or using the small caps feature in some programs.C Instead use typefaces that have been specifically created as small caps.

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TRUE-DRAWN SMALL CAPS

There are quite a few font families tha include “true-drawn” small caps–letterforms that have been redesigned to match the proportions and thickness of the uppercase. These families are often called “exper” sets or perhaps “small cap” sets (see Chapter 8). The result is a smooth, uniform, undisturbing tone throughout the text.

EXAMPLE OF COMPUTER GERNERATED SMALL CAPSC The weight of the computer-drawn small caps is thinner than the weight of the regular initial (first letter) caps. (Typeface below is Akzinez Grotesk)

EXAMPLE OF TRUE-DRAWN SMALL CAPSC Notice that the stroke width appears uniform throughout the text. (Typeface below is Didot)

The Wicked Are Very WeAry

SMALL CAPS

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EXAMPLE OF TRUE-DRAWN SMALL CAPSC Notice that the stroke width appears uniform throughout the text. (Typeface below is Didot)

The Wicked Are Very Weary

SMALL CAPS

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PARAGRAPHBREAKSParagraph breaks set a rhythm for the reader.They are a vital part a page visual movement.

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THE BREAKS HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COLUMN OF TEXT

AS WELL AS THE PAGE MARGINS.

A break may be introduced as an indentation, as a space or both. The over all page feel will be influenced by your choice. In typography there are four rules regarding paragraphs.

THE RULES OF PARAGRAPHS BREAKS:

C First line at the beginning of an article should be flush left (do not indent first paragraph)C Block paragraphs are flush left and are separated by extra leading not a full returnC The amount of indent is = to the leading (sometimes needs a bit more)C Never hit two returns between paragraphs.

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention. But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retro-spect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become. While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed pres-ent (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typog-raphy in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the bar-riers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

PARAGRAPH BREAK EXPERIMENT 1

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, origi-nality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presen-tation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between them-selves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exagger-ated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new imag-es… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mys-terious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”


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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and cel-ebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.


While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bris-tled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”


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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.


While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new imag-es… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mys-terious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915),


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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he con-ceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contem-porary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse contro-versy, and to attract widespread attention.


While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemi-cal stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analo-gies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”


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C But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exagger-ated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

C While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bris-tled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”


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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The

name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change,

originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes,

the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombas-tic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended

to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which,

as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radi-cal mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was,

on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect,

they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets

and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was

to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-

of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtapo-sition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography

in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed

declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who

came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915).




While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new imag-es… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mys-terious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”


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While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presenta-tion of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst(circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intend-ed to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract wide.

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A PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, origi-nality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy. A RADICAL MIX OF

ART AND LIFE: But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become. While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “tech-nical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ perfor-mances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between them-selves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy,.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radi-cal mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presen-tation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between them-selves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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RADICAL MIX OF ART & LIFE:

A PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

RADICAL MIX OF ART & LIFE:But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exagger-ated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typog-raphy in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the bar-riers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he con-ceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contem-porary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse contro-versy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now some-times seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and art-ists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innova-tive and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

radical mix of art & life:

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WORDS IN LIBERTY




While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new imag-es… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mys-terious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915),



words in liberty


Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and edi-tor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the stat-ic and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glo-rified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was pur-posely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse con-troversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exag-gerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”



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A PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, origi-nality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy.

A RADICAL MIX OF ART AND LIFE: But it is the move-ments which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in ret-rospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become. While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed pres-ent (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ perfor-mances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between them-selves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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2 parole in liberta = words set free (liberty)

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy,.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radi-cal mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presen-tation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between them-selves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

WORDS IN LIBERTY

RADICAL MIX OF ART & LIFE:

A PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and cel-ebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

RADICAL MIX OF ART & LIFE:But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exagger-ated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bris-tled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ perfor-mances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between them-selves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

CAPTIONS & NOTES

WORDS IN LIBERTYA PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM:

3 selbst = himself


1Philip Meggs, History of Graphic Design,

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he con-ceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contem-porary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse contro-versy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now some-times seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and art-ists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innova-tive and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

CAPTIONS & NOTES



WORDS IN LIBERTY

1Philip Meggs, History of Graphic Design,

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988

3 selbst = himself


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While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new imag-es… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mys-terious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerun-ners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ per-formances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surround-ings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915),



words in liberty

3 selbst = himself


1Philip Meggs, History of Graphic Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988

141CAPTIONS & NOTES

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and edi-tor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the stat-ic and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glo-rified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was pur-posely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse con-troversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exag-gerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term--still resonant today--was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”



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A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

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Akzidenz Grotesk

MaxogGdQRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-es was devised in the nineteenth cen-tury, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analo-gous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefac-es are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





147

CLASSIFICATION: TRANSITIONAL

REGULAR

SMALL CAPS

ITALIC

BOLD

Baskerville

MxaogGdQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups cor-respond roughly to the Renaissance, Ba-roque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






148


REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

BLACK ITALIC

Belizio

MxagGdQrRA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







149


LIGHT

BOLD

BLACK

Bell Gothic

MxagGdQrRIA basic system for classifying typefaces

was devised in the nineteenth century, when

printers sought to identify a heritage for their

own craft analogous to that of art history.

Humanist letterforms are closely connected

to calligraphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main

groups correspond roughly to the Renais-

sance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in

art and literature. Designers in the twentieth

and twenty-first centuries have continued

to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.





150

CLASSIFICATION: OLD STYLE

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

EXTRA BOLD

Bembo

MxnogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when print-

ers sought to identify a heritage for their own

craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transitional

and modern typefaces are more abstract and

less organic. These three main groups cor-

respond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque,

and Enlightenment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first

centuries have continued to create new type-

faces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces

was devised in the nineteenth century,

when printers sought to identify a heri-

tage for their own craft analogous to that

of art history. Humanist letterforms are

closely connected to calligraphy and the

movement of the hand. Transitional and

modern typefaces are more abstract and

less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance,

Baroque, and Enlightenment periods

in art and literature. Designers in the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based

on historic characteristics.






151

MxnogGdQrRstCLASSIFICATION: NEW TRANSITIONAL

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

BOLD ITALIC

Bookman

MxaogGdQrRA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Hu-manist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-enment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups corre-spond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment peri-ods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






152

CLASSIFICATION: MODERN (DIDONE)

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

ORNAMENTS

Bodoni

MxaogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9



Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *FONT SPECI F ICATIONS

153

MxaogGdQrRstCLASSIFICATION: TRANSITIONAL

REGULAR

ITALIC

SWASH

ORNAMENT

ALTERNATE

Caslon

MxanogGdQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.




Aa Ba Ca Da Ea Fa Ga Ha Ia Ja Ka La Ma Na Oa Pa Qa Ra Sa Ta Ua Va Wa Xa Ya Z

A a Bb C c D d Ee F f G g H h Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Or S s Ot Uu Vv Ww X x y Z z 1 2 3 4

c h i k l Ss T t


154


REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

BOLD ITALIC

Century Schoolbook

MxaogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-enment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic charac-teristics.







155

MxaogGdQrRtCLASSIFICATION: OLD STYLE

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

BOLD ITALIC

Cheltenham

MaxogGdQrRsA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







156

CLASSIFICATION: MODERN

UNICASE

REGULAR

Cholla

MaxnogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.









less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance,

Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art

and literature. Designers in the twentieth



characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn

Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *



157

MaxnogGdQrRstCLASSIFICATION: SLAB SERIF

LIGHT

REGULAR

BOLD

Clarendon

MxagGdQrRtA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-enment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twen-ty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





158

CLASSIFICATION: GRID BASED SANS SERIF

REGULAR

Clicker

MaxnogGdQRsA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.



159

MaxnogGdQRsCLASSIFICATION: MODERN

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

Didot

MxaogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renais-sance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





160

CLASSIFICATION: GROTESQUE DIN

MaxnogGdQrRtLIGHT

REGULAR

MEDIUM

BLACK


A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.



Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 { ? ! @ & *

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 { ? ! @ & *


161

MaxnogGdQrRtCLASSIFICATION: GROTESQUE DIN (Condensed)

MaxngdQHAMBURGLIGHT CONDENSED

REGULAR CONDENSED

BOLD CONDENSED

BLACK CONDENSED








162

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

Disturbance

MxnatQbWFGdRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised

in the nineteenth century, when printers sought

to identify a heritage for their own craft analo-

gous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms

are closely connected to calligraphy and the

movement of the hand. Transitional and modern

typefaces are more abstract and less organic.

These three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries have con-

tinued to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo

Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp

Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

( ) { } ? ! @ & *

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo

Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *


163

MxnatQbWFGdR

CLASSIFICATION: BLACKLETTER

REGULAR

Fette Fraktur

MxnaopQrRtfgA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when



Humanist letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the hand.



groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance,


and literature. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued to create

new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *Idunt aliquam adignim velit utat. Etuer accum dunt ad magniam, ven-diat lam verostrud essi tetum illa facipisl utet endre feu faccum dit praessi. Ing ea feuguer aessenim atisi.Delessi. Sectet, sit, ver si.Alit ipit esequis exer adigna adignit aliquat lam dunt utpat aut nisisi.Tate conse nim adionsecte feuis etum dolobore molore verit veniss


164


REGULAR

FRACTIONS

UNICASE

Filosofia

MxnaopQrRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nine-teenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and mod-ern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first cen-turies have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





165


BOOK

DEMI

HEAVY

CONDENSED

Franklin Gothic

MaxodQRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to iden-tify a heritage for their own craft anal-ogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups cor-respond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefac-es based on historic characteristics.






166

CLASSIFICATION: HUMANIST

CONDENSED

REGULAR

BOLD

ULTRA BLACK

Frutiger

MaxodQRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analo-gous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefac-es are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






167

CLASSIFICATION: GEOMETRIC

BOOK

BOLD

EXTRA BOLD

Futura

MxaopQRstGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups corre-spond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment peri-ods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





168


REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

Gill Sans

MaxnbyogGQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.



Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! & *



169


BOOK

BOLD

ITALIC

LIGHT

Gotham

MayogGdQRtA basic system for classifying type-

faces was devised in the nineteenth

century, when printers sought to

identify a heritage for their own

craft analogous to that of art history.

Humanist letterforms are closely con-

nected to calligraphy and the move-

ment of the hand. Transitional and

modern typefaces are more abstract

and less organic. These three main

groups correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-

enment periods in art and litera-

ture. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued

to create new typefaces based on

historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-

faces was devised in the nineteenth

century, when printers sought to

identify a heritage for their own

craft analogous to that of art history.

Humanist letterforms are closely

connected to calligraphy and the

movement of the hand. Transitional

and modern typefaces are more ab-

stract and less organic. These three

main groups correspond roughly

to the Renaissance, Baroque, and

Enlightenment periods in art and

literature. Designers in the twenti-

eth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces

based on historic characteristics.






170


REGULAR

BOLD

BLACK EXTENDED

Helvetica

MaoygGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






LIGHT


171

MaoygGdQrRtCLASSIFICATION:

REGULAR

BOLD

BLACK

BOLD CONDENSED

Interstate

MaoygGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces


when printers sought to identify a

heritage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letterforms

are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transi-

tional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three

main groups correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-

ment periods in art and literature. De-

signers in the twentieth and twenty-first

centuries have continued to create new

typefaces based on historic character-

istics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-

es was devised in the nineteenth cen-

tury, when printers sought to identify

a heritage for their own craft analo-

gous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefac-

es are more abstract and less organic.

These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque,

and Enlightenment periods in art and

literature. Designers in the twentieth

and twenty-first centuries have contin-

ued to create new typefaces based on







172

CLASSIFICATION: TRANSITIONAL SERIF

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

BOLD

Melior

MayogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transi-tional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-ment periods in art and literature. De-signers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic character-istics.






173


LIGHT

MEDIUM

EXTRA BOLD

Memphis

MxagGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-es was devised in the nineteenth cen-tury, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and En-lightenment periods in art and litera-ture. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.




MayogGdQrRt


174


REGULAR

CAPS

BLACK

ITALIC

Meta

MaxogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefac-es are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-ment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







175


REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

FRACTIONS

Mrs Eaves

MaxogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when print-

ers sought to identify a heritage for their own

craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transitional

and modern typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and

Enlightenment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first cen-

turies have continued to create new typefaces


A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the

nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage

for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-

ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces






MaxogGdQrRst


176


REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

News Gothic

MaxogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when print-ers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when print-ers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





177

CLASSIFICATION: SAN SERIF MONOSPACED

REGULAR

OCR A

MaopQRfGgA basic system for clas-

sifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth

century, when printers

sought to identify a heri-

tage for their own craft

analogous to that of art

history. Humanist let-

terforms are closely con-

nected to calligraphy and

the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern

typefaces are more histor-

ic characteristics.


MaxogGdQrRst


178

CLASSIFICATION: SAN SERIF

BOOK

ITALIC

BOLD

Optima

MxaopQRstGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






179


LIGHT

OLD STYLE

MEDIUM

BLACK

Palatino

MxaopQRstGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.








REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

Perpetua

MxaopQRstGgqA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Ba-roque, and Enlightenment periods in art and litera-ture. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in

the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify

a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art

history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to cal-

ligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and

modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance,

Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

have continued to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.






THIN

REGULAR

HEAVY

Platelet

MaxbyogGQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces



tage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely connected to cal-

ligraphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces are

more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-

enment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-

first centuries have continued to create

new typefaces based on historic charac-

teristics.




tage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely connected to cal-

ligraphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces are

more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-

enment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-

first centuries have continued to create

new typefaces based on historic charac-

teristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll

Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx

Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { }

? ! @ & *



Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { }

? ! & *



Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { }

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182


REGULAR

ALTERNATE

BOLD

Priori Sans

MxanopdrRtSfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in

the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify

a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art

history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional

and modern typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods

in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued to create new

typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised

in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to

identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely

connected to calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and

Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Design-

ers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.





183

CLASSIFICATION: NEW TRANSITIONAL

REGULAR

ALTERNATE

BOLD

Priori Serif

MxanodQrRtSfgA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when printers

sought to identify a heritage for their own craft

analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely connected to calligraphy and the

movement of the hand. Transitional and modern

typefaces are more abstract and less organic.

These three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries have con-

tinued to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was de-

vised in the nineteenth century, when printers

sought to identify a heritage for their own craft

analogous to that of art history. Humanist let-

terforms are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transitional and

modern typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and

Enlightenment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first

centuries have continued to create new type-

faces based on historic characteristics.





184


(55) SANS

ITALIC

SERIF

ITALIC

Rotis

MxanopQrRtGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renais-sance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






185


REGULAR

SMALL CAPS

BOLD

BOLD ITALIC

Sabon

MxayogGQfRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







186


REGULAR

CAPS

ITALIC

BOLD

Scala Sans

MxabyogGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefaces was





to calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefaces

are more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in

the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based on


A basic system for classifying typefaces was





to calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefaces

are more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in

the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based on







187


REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

BLACK

Serifa

MxaoygGdQRA basic system for classifying typefaces

was devised in the nineteenth cen-

tury, when printers sought to identify

a heritage for their own craft analo-

gous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefac-

es are more abstract and less organic.

These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque,

and Enlightenment periods in art and

literature. Designers in the twentieth

and twenty-first centuries have contin-

ued to create new typefaces based on


A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






188

CLASSIFICATION: SCRIPT

REGULAR

Snell Roundhand

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189

CLASSIFICATION: NEW TRANSITIONAL/HUMANIST SERIF

BOLD CONDENSED

REGULAR

ITALIC

BOLD

Swift

MxaoygGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefaces








less organic. These three main groups cor-

respond roughly to the Renaissance, Ba-

roque, and Enlightenment periods in art

and literature. Designers in the twentieth



characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was




Humanist letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the hand.



groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance,


and literature. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued to create

new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






190


REGULAR

BOLD

BLACK

BLACK

Syntax

MxaoygGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







191


CONDENSED

MEDIUM

BOLD

BOLD NO.2

Trade Gothic

MxanyogGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






MxaoygGdQrR


192

CLASSIFICATION: MOMDERN

REGULAR

ITALIC

SMALL CAPS

BOLD

Walbaum

MxyagGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have con-tinued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






193


REGULAR

MEDIUM

MEDIUM ITALIC

BOLD

Volta

MyogGdQrRA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have con-tinued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are close-ly connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






194

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C Text for the book was compiled from the fol-lowing sources: Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, Getting it Right with Type: the Do’s and Don’ts of Typography by Victoria Square, Mac is Not A Typewriter by Robin Williams. C This book is not to be sold to the public and to only be used by the designer for their reference and student design portfolio.

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