Comments | waitforgreen: font geek love

waitforgreen

font geek love

Feb 21, 2006 00:40

Sometimes when I am reading, esspecially when it's an assignment, I'll get distracted by the serifs on the letters. My eyes will shift focus and slowly trace the beautiful curves of the letterforms and study the intricate shapes of the serifs ( Read more... )

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tetrisattack February 21 2006, 06:19:53 UTC

All this was phat, he was wild he was free, with hypnertomachia poliphili
the frenchman cut punches of which he was fond and cast a family we call garamond!
Baskerville was a man with a mission -- he began the typographic transmission!

Serifs who needs 'em, we all got plans, strip 'em all away and we'll call the type sans!

waitforgreen February 22 2006, 06:17:01 UTC

In 1455 and this ain't no hype, Gutenburg was gettin' jiggy with movable type!
He was printing in Germany, a city called Mainz and his first printed Bible had 42 lines.
Two germans went to Rome cause the food was better, and printed their books in Subiako letter.
Jensen was a Frechman but in Venice he was cool, his type was called Venitian and will always rule!

p.s. typographic transition

sexy_cheetah February 21 2006, 06:27:37 UTC

ampersands. such an enigma.

waitforgreen February 21 2006, 17:58:58 UTC

No, actually I was reading about the history of them! And! They originate from Latin, the latin word for "and" being et, so ampersands evolved from "et", which you can see in the italic garamond and baskerville ampersands in particular! How exciting!

frisbeeboy1118 February 21 2006, 21:01:36 UTC

I love fonts. Really, I don't think that people realize how much they affect the overall design. people wonder why I get so up tight about a crummy looking font, or even worse, comic sans, but it really just needs to flow. Oh my head hurts now at the mention of Comic Sans (Ouch!)

Hey, Molly! seacucumbers February 21 2006, 22:54:57 UTC

You might get a kick out of this then: A poster hanging on the wall in the journalism lab at EvCC says "I shot the serif." I've learned a bit about the serif and the san serif, myself.

tansy88 February 22 2006, 00:11:08 UTC

this year in the stiqayu i was dubbed at "font nazi". really, i can be quite ocd about fonts... i just hate it when there are TOO many styles of fonts on one page. eeeek.

but those fonts, my dearest molly... are gorgeous.