Monday, September 8, 2014

Typography

          so we took this little game and found out what our type is. they asked us four questions and we would answer which one fit us best. so my answers came out to be Rational, Understated, Traditional, and Disciplined. I was "Rational" because i prefer to say there is a one in two chance of something being right than just going off feeling. I'm "Understated" think the best word is the word in my ear and not shouted for everyone to know. Im "Traditional" for the style of traditional is just elegant. i am "Disciplined" because with discipline great things are achieved, and with the things you have to work for you will care for a lot more. so with those, i received the type Perpetua Tilting Light
this type was designed in 1928. it was influenced by roman stone cutting, it has a very measured differentiation between thick and thin strokes. so the picture below has the anatomy that i created for this type face. there really is not a lot of different things for this type , because its all in capital letters, and there aren't any things like tails, shoulders, terminals, loops, or descenders. but there are quite a few serifs and bars, lots of arms and overshoots.