An introduction to type : Part 1 OUGD404

The Anatomy of Type

What is the difference between a rule and a principle?
Rule - Can't be broken Principle - Can be explored and challenged

You would fine the following on :- 

• Stone - gravestones , walls
• Sable - oriental , brush
• Bone - quill
• Wood 
• Lead - letter press
• Silicone - digital 

For a previous task we were assigned to collect 5 different typefaces from illustrator or photoshop from our uni macs, we had to print them on a4 a copy of them in lower and higher case. Me and my partner then arranged them into 5 categories. 

• serif
• san serif
• modern
• traditional
• bold

We next got our partners five fonts and used identifont.com/ and chose one to research into .

The typeface i chose of my partner was Rockwell

The Rockwell® font family is a slab serif typeface originally modeled after a 1910 font called Litho Antique™. Revived by Morris Fuller Benton in the 1920s, the font was redesigned and published in 1934 by Monotype in a project spearheaded by Frank Hinman Pierpont. rockwell-fonts.com