Typography in all its glory

We had short task to get us into 'the swing of things' this morning.

We had to get into our blog groups and together, from the summer brief, have at hand all our exmaples we had collected of letterforms. We were at first asked to categorize them into 10 areas. As a group we came up with:

• Photograoh related
• Serif
• Sans serif
• Illustrated
• Uppercase
• Lowercase
• Pattern
• Colour
• Digital
• 3D

We came up with these categories after arranging all our letters together and finding the prodoninant areas. As we had our own choice considering catergories, this was quite easy, but then we began to realise alot of our collected examples fitted into many categories making it impossible to give just one to each letter.

Each of the groups read out their list of categories to fred bates, in which he created a new list for us to categorize our letters into. The list was:

• Serif
• Sans serif
• Light
• Bold
• Regular
• Font
• Scale/point size
• Uppercase
• Lowercase
• Italic

These we found more difficult as we couldn't make sense to what is 'regular', without that we can't define what 'bold' and 'light' is, and so on. With this in mind, we were taken to have another type related presentation...

Typeface anatomy

There really was a mass of unexpected elements to typography! Elements to the actual letters had definitions, for instance, the letter 'G' consists of an 'ear', 'Loop' and 'Link'. Below are several sheets giving a glossary of different typography elelements, which I'm sure will help with the given brief.