Today the class went through the mission of launching the Juno-Lockdown test-taking software. Afterwards, we learned about how words having different meanings and how we use these numerous meanings interchangeably throughout different moments in time. Words, symbols, phrases etc are meaningless, nothing is truly good nor is anything truly bad-- the moment something is considered "bad" or "good" is the moment society decides so.
Printing started in Germany and spread westward. Moving into West Europe and eventually America, everyone was getting involved with type. Typefaces in general developed slowly, but around the 1800's, many different type-families were being created for many reasons: attention, aesthetic, production, experiments and the idea of being different from the rest of the competition.
The 5 font-famlies are:
- Old Style (rounded sarifs)
- Transitional (angular/precise)
- Modern (no brackets on sarifs: units)
- Egyptian
- Sans Serif
Additional Font Families:
- Display
- Black Letter
- Hand
- Script
- Dingbats
**Additional Font information**
- Cap Height: The measurements of the capital letters
- Ascender Line: The top of the type
- X-Height: the height of the lower-case letters
- Base Line: the lowest point of the capitals and lowercase letters
- Descender Line: the lowest point of the letters
- Leading: the measurement from base line to base line
Personal Thoughts:
The idea of using different fonts and how each of them either differ greatly or not so greatly, is interesting. I am personally a fan of san-sarif fonts and it is refreshing to see the history and process of how it was created. Also, learning about how, when and where to use these different fonts, families and styles was also interesting.
Questions:
What is the best font face/family to use for text books?
Is it easier ont he eyes to read in sarif or san-sarif?
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