Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
c. 1455
(the printed page)
Book of Hours Flanders
c. 1460
(an illuminated book,
hand-written by scribes)
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Type Classification
stress points
The category of (Gothic) script letters used Away from calligraphy towards rationalized Mathematical system. Generous counters and High precision. Strict vertical stress. Serifs not
throughout Western Europe from approximately system of letterforms. Based on not pen on x-height. Usually vertical stress. Redefinition thicker than hairlines. Brilliant contrast. Bodoni
1150 to 1500. Most prominent kinds are paper, but design of punches for typefounding. of the alphabet as a rational system of parts. can be considered as the face of Neo-classism,
Textura, Rotunda, Schwabacher & Fraktur. while Didot represents the Age of Reason.
Developed for advertising, posters & flyers in Most obvious characteristic is the absence of All typefaces that cannot be assigned to any Scripts are based on handwritten (cursive)
the early 1900s. Horizontal, strong and geo- serifs. Generally strokes are uniform, with little other group. Historic, decorative, typewriter, letterforms and are not to be confused with
metric serifs. Little or no contrast in the strokes. or no contrast between them. Stress is always display, and experimental typefaces. italics. Individual letters are designed to ‘touch’
vertical. Variations tend towards either humanist in order to create a flowing, cursive effect.
forms (Gill Sans) or rigidly geometric (Futura).
Carolingian Miniscule used in the
8th c. is the reference for the
humanist forms developed during
the Renaissance.
E.g. Jenson’s Venetian Old Style.
stem x-height
baseline
stress
serifs
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descender loop
2% of the H-line 3% must be
must be allowed projected above
above and below the top line