Typography Task 1 / Exercises
4/4/2022 - Ending Date / Week 1 - Ending Week Dominic Lim Yan Hong / 0354235 Bachelor of Creative Media Design Task 1: Exercises LECTURES: Week 1: Development Typography: The art of arranging and creating typefaces to make written text legible, readable and appealing when displayed . Typeface: The family of fonts or weight that share a similar style Fonts: Individual fonts or weights within a typeface Development History: Early letterform development: Phoenician to Roman:- It was initially meant to be merely scratching wet clay with sharpened stick or carving into a stone with a chisel. The forms of uppercase letterforms for nearly 2000 years can be seen to have evolved out of these tools and materials. At their core, uppercase forms are simple combination of straight lines and pieces of circles as the materials and tools of early writing required. This is the earliest form of typefacing. The greeks however, changed the direction of writing. Phoenicians, like other Semitic people, wro...
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