The Copperplate typeface is a typeface that all designers in the industry should learn and know

Generally, type design demonstrates the history of cultural changes, social expectations, economic advancements and technological progresses. The impetuses for the creations of typefaces vary from each other, which in this study, arise from four main sources: cultural, corporate, technological and aesthetic. Without doubt, there motivations can be interrelated. For example, Helvetica, as the most representative Super Normal typeface, was motivated by the cultural determination towards the reconstruction after the Second World War and the aesthetic passion to revolutionize the decorative typography as used to. Another example comes from the Microsoft Corporation, a major corporation, commissioned Matthew Carter to design a

The original design was released by Linotype in 1957. Since its launch, the typeface had been worked on by a variety of designers to adapt it for successive methods of composition, from hot metal to photocomposition to digital. Given the technical limitations of methods, the character weights, widths and spacing were inconsistent and compromised.

Look around and what do you see? You see letters forming creative words on this page, on TV and magazines. These letters form words which can be read in such a particular way. The typography behind the design seeks for the readers attention. The typography in design is the unique personality that identifies the product or advertisement, similar to fashion. Typography visually gives more to the idea behind the design. It is a way to call out and be heard without making a sound. It combines elements in new ways with different themes and ideas. The idea of typography has not changed since it was first created. The late seventieth century and early eighteenth century, type designers work was laborious and they had very little

1989 the ITC Slimbach and Giovanni. There are different kinds of typefaces and ways in which

The press which Gutenberg created was also thought have to adapted from a wine press machine “these contraption are wine presses, Alan May thinks that Gutenberg’s press evolved from machines like these.”[10] There is a big wooden thread which generates all the power and then needs a counter thread that will guide it down and that had to be craved out by hand. “This ingenious device uses these wooden pegs to guide the thread on its journey, meanwhile a set of cutters at the other end carve the counter thread through the solid wooden block”[11] An image drawn by Albrecht Durer roughly sixty to seventy years after Gutenberg made his press. This illustration shows that the legs of the press come forward away from the press where as presses today has legs that keep the press centered. Gutenberg used an isolated area to build and use his press so people don’t come and steal it “No-one knows exactly where his workshop was, but it must have been somewhere near here. He'd chosen a secluded base to protect himself from the threat of industrial espionage.”[12] To get his required font he went to the guild of gold smiths and met a man called Hans Dunne. Together they made a breakthrough that helped Gutenberg make his movable type “a master copy of the letter we want to reproduce. After we've transferred its outline onto the tip of this steel bar, it has to be carved by hand

Trajan harmonizes poorly with most body text typefaces, and its refined scale and extreme formality rarely seem suitable for book work. It is impossible to set the type in a suitably large size, leaving characters that ought to appear imposing and grand looking feeble alongside a more robust text type.

The typeface I chose for this research is Times New Roman. I like this typeface out of all the other. You can use this font in many different ads, magazine, books, and etc. this font was first evented in Times New Roman is a Transitional serif typeface designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent. It was released through Monotype in 1931. The design was based off Plantin , but with a renewed focus on legibility and economy to better meet the needs of newspaper typography. Times New Roman is one of the most ubiquitous typefaces of the digital publishing age due to it being the default font for numerous word processing applications and web browsers. In Times New Roman's name, Roman is a reference to the regular style of a conventional serif font. Times New Roman was a metal type created in the late sixteenth century by the French artisan Robert Granjon

Typography is a crucial part of our history and has existed since the dawn of man. When humans first stepped out of their caves and into the open world, they wanted to tell stories. In order to spread these ideas, they required writing. Although various interesting scripts exist through the ages, one interesting period is from 1750 to 1300 BC. There were various types of writing in this time period, each with their own unique styles and uses, few even inspire people in the modern world. It's fascinating that countless different types of writing exist within this time span. Writings from these time periods can easily illustrate how ancient type was used and how it affects modern day.

Cursive can be very important in the world. A lot of things in history were written in cursive. Things like The Declaration of Independence. Lots of people still like to write in cursive. For instance my mother loves cursive its almost like she doesn’t know how to write

A little bit of background: Stanley Morison was a British typographer and designer. He's also the person who co-developed and had Times New Roman (everybody's default typeface) commissioned- which was, without a doubt, the pinnacle of his career. Several ubiquitous typefaces, including Garamond (first appeared in 1530) and Baskerville (designed in 1757) owe their comebacks to him.

To begin with, there are many reasons that cursive writing is very important and good for us to know. A lot of people wonder why students learn how to write cursive in the age of IPhone, tablets, computers, etc. Cursive writing has been used for a very long time. Many of the hand writing done was in cursive for a very long time.

Also writing cursive helps you look educated for knowing how to writing. It helps you with jobs oppurtunets in the writing work force. Cursive even helps with fine motor skill development and stimulates both the right and left parts of the brain. Psychologists found students that learned more if they handworte notes instead

When Bodoni opened his first printing office for the Duke of Parma, he did so with type from Fournier, the French printer and publisher. In later years, the work of his great Parisian competitor, François Didot, influenced him dramatically. Bodoni was always dependent on the work of other, bolder contemporaries. Some may think that Bodoni was too influenced by Didot. While there are distinct similarities in the two designers’ work, and it is clear that Bodoni studied Didot’s designs carefully, a close examination reveals that the weight transitions of Bodoni’s designs are more gradual, and serifs still maintain a slight degree of bracketing. There is even a hint of old style traits in Bodoni’s fonts. Didot designs, however, are quintessential neoclassical fonts with geometrically precise hairline serifs and a rigid vertical stroke

The best way to explain the love and hate feelings towards one of the most recognizable typefaces of all time is best done by a joke. “So, Comic Sands walks into a bar…and the bartender says, ‘we don’t serve your type’” (Garfield, 21). Comic Sans was created by Vincent Connare, and was released by Microsoft in 1995. Ever since its existence people have questioned its purpose and aesthetic. The typeface is notoriously known for being too informal and lacks care in designing it. An example of a design flaw from a graphic designer’s perspective, is the carelessness and inconsistency with its kerning. Kerning is the adjustable space between letters or characters. This paper will take a closer look at the history of Comic Sans from the launch to twenty years later.

Cursive writing is a type of writing that was created so you could quickly glide across a page with a writing utensil and write a lot faster than you would be able to when using other forms of writing, but with the creation of typewriters, computers, phones, and other technological advancements such as those, the use of cursive is scarce. When we are learning cursive in school, we could be learning about more important things such as calculus or physics. In my opinion, cursive is not a very useful way of writing and a waste of time when taught in schools.