Syllabus

Approved Font List

Links

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Font sheets:
Didot, Futura, Baskerville, Hoefler, Gill Sans

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Illustrator Pen Tool handout

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Citation resources: Citation Machine - Online Writing Lab

fonts.com Letter Series letterform history (a place to START your research)

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Use this text for the assignment. Here are a few of the examples we looked at in class 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Homework 8
Typeface Poster

Design an 11 x 17 poster to promote a typeface. You must choose a face from the Approved Font List. Include a specimen of every character in the font. Include a paragraph discussing the history of the font. CITE YOUR SOURCES! There will be no tollerance of plagiarism!

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Citation resources: Citation Machine - Online Writing Lab

Links

General Resources

• Thnking With Type
• Identifont
• Linotype
• Encyclopedia of Typography
• fonts.com

Letterform Anatomy

• Thinking With Type: Anatomy
• fonts.com Anatomy of a Character
• Linotype Font Measurement article
• Grand Pubbah Type Flashcards

Articles & Journals

• The Type Studio articles (of particular interest are the "Type Basics for the Web" and "Font Selection Made Easy" articles by Ilene Strivzner)
• Linotype articles
• fonts.com Letter Series (letterform history)
• fonts.com fy[t]i articles (good articles on many ot the technical aspects of typography; especially "Anatomy of a Character")
• Type Culture (the movies)
• The Type Studio articles
• They're not fonts
• Typographica
• Mark Boulton "Five Simple Steps to Better Typography"
• Typophile

Fun

• ni9e (check out "typoactive" & "typographic illustration" from the pulldown menu)
• Tom Lehrer's "Elements" (type in motion)
• Bembo's Zoo (fun with lettterforms)