Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
JUST WATCH.
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Monday, September 5, 2011
-Adrian Frutiger is the typeface designer of Univers and continues to influence digital type.
-What makes the Univers grid so "unique" is that different weights and variations within the type family are designated by the use of numbers rather then names, but in the Univers family, the typeface names include both number and letter suffixes.
-What makes the Univers grid so "unique" is that different weights and variations within the type family are designated by the use of numbers rather then names, but in the Univers family, the typeface names include both number and letter suffixes.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Weight - Relative darkness of the characters of a type font resulting from the relative thickness of the strokes-light, bold.
X-Height – the height of a lowercase “x” in a typeface. Can impact a typeface’s “visual weight” and readability and therefore impact on the typesize that we choose.
Cap Height - refers to the height of a capital letter above the baseline for a particular typeface.
Leading - the vertical spacing between baselines.
Tracking - the spacing between letters in a line of text.
Type is measured in points and picas which measure type size, line spacing, and column width.
Point - A unit of measurement for type sizes and spacing, which in the US and UK is one twelfth of a pica, or 0.013835 inch (0.351 mm), and in Europe is 0.015 inch (0.376 mm)
Pica - A size of letter in typewriting, with 10 characters to the inch (about 3.9 to the centimeter)
How many points in an inch?
72 points in 1 inch
0.4999 inches, about ½ inch
1 inch = 6 PostScript pica
1 PostScript Pica = 12 PostScript points
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