tasting typography: make your own letters
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codepot 2015
Tasting Typography: Make Your Own Letters
@khyroslava @magdazadara
Improvise
Learn some rules
Evaluate & Discuss
Recreate
Freestyle
Improvise
hands-on
the tools
1 bag + sheet of paperbrains + hands (2 persons)
source: www.typo.polona.pl
scan & print
Wow!
Wow!
micro macro
Wow!
micro
source: www.designersinsights.com/designer-resources/anatomy-of-typography
Didot Regular
source: www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/CD/deskapps/inkscape/tut5.html
source: www.calligraphy-by-sam.tumblr.com
Sans Serif
Helvetica Neue Thin
Futura Medium
legilibity / readability
source: www.ilovetypography.com/2010/11/02/reviving-caslon-part-2-readability-affability-authority
source: www.bwa.wroc.pl/index.php?l=pl&id=831&b=6&w=1
source: www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/january/ratp-led
elements
spacing
spacing
s p a c i n g
lato regular; spacing -100
lato regular; spacing 0
lato regular; spacing 200
thickness
thicknessthickness
lato hairline
lato medium
lato black
contrast
contrastcontrast
didot regular
bodoni book
garamond regular
contrast
contrastcontrast
didot regular
bodoni book
garamond regular
x-height x-heightcochin regular georgia regular
x-height x-heightcochin regular georgia regular
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
lato light
raleway light
helvetica light
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
lato light
raleway light
helvetica light
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
lato light
raleway light
helvetica light
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
1l Ocean
lato light
raleway light
helvetica light
1l Ocean1l Ocean1l Ocean
georgia regular
caslon medium
calluna regular
1l Ocean1l Ocean1l Ocean
georgia regular
caslon medium
calluna regular
media
source: www.fontshop.com/content/ff-franziska-for-buendner-tagblatt
source: www.fontshop.com/content/ff-franziska-for-buendner-tagblatt
W
W
W
source: www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/the-ails-of-typographic-anti-aliasing/
evaluate& discuss
recreate
freestyle