Showing posts with label [P3]. Show all posts
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Monday, November 16, 2015

[P3]: 2

What are small capitals? How are they different than something set in ALL CAPS? Small caps are uppercase letterforms that are shorter in height than the capitals in a given typeface. When designed as part of a text face, they are most often the height of the lowercase (or very slightly taller), so that they harmonize with both the caps and the lowercase characters. 
-- Does your font have small caps? If not name a font that does. It doesn't. Sabon.
-- Ligatures? why are they used? when are they not used? what are common ligatures? Two or more letters are joined together to form one glyph or character. Definition: Two or more letters combined into one character make a ligature. Intypography some ligatures represent specific sounds or words such as the AE or æ diphthongligature.
-- Does your font have ligatures? If not name a font that does.Yes it does. They're kinda lame though....
-- Difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe? Footmarks are dumb quotes, they should only be used to mark a foot. An apostrophe is meant to separate a conjunction or the like. 
-- Difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)? Inch marks are dumb quotes too. They are straight instead of curved and often used in place of quotes but they look really stupid. 
-- Hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used.
Here is info I found about the when to use which
 I will try to condense the various bits of information scattered throughout CMOS. First of all, there are three lengths of what are all more or less dashes: hyphen (-), en dash (–), and em dash (—). I frame it this way because the work they do is roughly related to their length (though I don’t think CMOS puts it this way outright).
The hyphen connects two things that are intimately related, usually words that function together as a single concept or work together as a joint modifier (e.g., tie-in, toll-free call, two-thirds).
The en dash connects things that are related to each other by distance, as in the May–September issue of a magazine; it’s not a May-September issue, because June, July, and August are also ostensibly included in this range. And in fact en dashes specify any kind of range, which is why they properly appear in indexes when a range of pages is cited (e.g., 147–48). En dashes are also used to connect a prefix to a proper open compound: for example, pre–World War II. In that example, “pre” is connected to the open compound “World War II” and therefore has to do a little extra work (to bridge the space between the two words it modifies—space that cannot be besmirched by hyphens because “World War II” is a proper noun). Now, that is a rather fussy use of the en dash that many people ignore, preferring the hyphen.
The em dash has several uses. It allows, in a manner similar to parentheses, an additional thought to be added within a sentence by sort of breaking away from that sentence—as I’ve done here. Its use or misuse for this purpose is a matter of taste, and subject to the effect on the writer’s or reader’s “ear.” Em dashes also substitute for something missing. For example, in a bibliographic list, rather than repeating the same author over and over again, three consecutive em dashes (also known as a 3-em dash) stand in for the author’s name. In interrupted speech, one or two em dashes may be used: “I wasn’t trying to imply——” “Then just what were you trying to do?” Also, the em dash may serve as a sort of bullet point, as in this to-do list:
—wash the car
—walk the dog
—attempt to explain em and en dashes

This explanation is not intended to be exhaustive (for much more, see chapter 6 in CMOS 16), but I do hope that it helps to frame the different potential of each length of dash. 
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/HyphensEnDashesEmDashes/faq0002.html
AND SOME PROCESS



Sunday, October 18, 2015

[P3]:1

Futura




FONT INFOIdentify the following information about your font
_ Sans Serif or Serif
_ Name of the Designer- Paul Renner
_ Other fonts the Designer has designed-
_ Date it was designed- 1924-1927
_ Classification (not just Sans Serif or Serif)- Geometric Linear Sans
_ List its family members: Roman, Italic, Bold...(small caps): light, light oblique, book, book oblique, medium, medium oblique, heavy, heavy oblique, bold, bold oblique, extra bold, and extra bold oblique



Old Style- serif fonts with a difference between thick and thin lines of font but not to striking. Based on calligraphy


Transitional


Modern- Large difference between thick and thin strokes.


Slab Serif- serif fonts with large square serifs.


Sans Serif- a font without the serifs at the ends




















Stoke Weight-
the weight or thickness of the lines of a type face. 


Axis/Stress- the orientation on which a type face is placed. Ex: A titled axis would be an oblique font
Small Caps- an upper case version of a font with the same height as the lower case letters. 
Lining Figures- When the numbers in a font follow the baseline and height of the rest of the font.
Non-aligning figures- When the numbers dip above or below the x-height to distinguish numbers from text
Ligatures- When two fonts are specially designed in a type face because they are touching (ft, tt ect)