... designer and I have been lacking some real understanding of typography. I know very little about the history of typography, it’s ... 101 for us newbies… ...it’s called The Elements of Typographic Style Jim, I think your last post deserves its ...

Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 5:24am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... a few vendors, but none divulge any more than the number of weights and a price. Digital Versions URW Topic at FontShop ... of all. Much of the refinement — say, thinning round elements as they approach stems — seems to come from the foundry. But ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:49pm - 145 comments - 0 attachments

... system for this building: The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ( http://www.pafa.org ) as a school project. I need to ... stone rise toward a roofline marked with such colorful elements as red and black brick patterning, fanciful floral motifs, and a ... it depends on the building. Some of the more ornate lettering like Nick showed would be great also, but it would be harder to get ...

Forum topic - dave bailey - 3 May 2006 - 8:23am - 33 comments - 0 attachments

... only you can help! Teaching faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can propose courses for study abroad. For a ... relationship between the political climate and typographic elements (in this case the unjustified text emerging in the post WW2 world). ...

Forum topic - Maurice Meilleur - 14 Mar 2006 - 6:04am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

Help! I have (at least) a couple of issues I need help with, regarding the use of Chinese fonts, and Adobe ... unfortunately they’re more concentrated on custom lettering than complete set – their GB collection includes also traditional ... chinese character seems to have a lot of repeating elements. But when implementing into a font, they all display small ...

Forum topic - breck - 11 Apr 2006 - 1:43pm - 12 comments - 0 attachments

... been paying much more attention to the subtleties of kerning and tracking and leading and gutters and all that good stuff. ... designer to learn the basics of type design and hand lettering. Underware has a nice page on type design basics here and G ... nice to see you here. I assume you know of “The Elements of Typographic Style” since every design forum out there ...

Forum topic - gerald - 11 Apr 2006 - 5:03pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... “slant” going to hurt readability in blocks of body text? Roman always seems based on a strict vertical orientation, with a ... or outline but the entire pattern of whatever atomistic elements make up units of vision, and my brain is sorting those into a ...

Forum topic - jlg4104 - 21 Mar 2006 - 5:56am - 114 comments - 0 attachments

... example, old style italics tend to have a great variety of different slants to the letters. Does making them more uniform help ... italics: keep letterforms as compact as possible and avoid elements extending too far, yet at the same time make it LOOK vivid and ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 20 Jan 2006 - 1:26pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments

... own logo between projects for years. It has been a source of frustration because I am a horrible client. Ideas for client’s logos ... or graphics (if any). The color and the icon are the only elements I feel good about right now. I am to the point of just using a ...

Forum topic - cannon46 - 9 Mar 2006 - 4:37pm - 70 comments - 1 attachment

Hello, Generally I am appalled at the poor use of type. Lousy design/designers tend to hide behind the latest typographical ... language of the typeface. But the form is only one of the elements of a font. The extensiveness — or perhaps should I say, ...

Forum topic - Rodrigue Planck - 10 Mar 2006 - 8:45pm - 29 comments - 0 attachments