History on Type
This entry here is all about the history in typography, talking about the type design, layout and the history on typography which features some notes and a timeline of history. I wanted to do this entry so I had a better understanding for typography generally and because its one of the key things I struggle with in this industry and figured if I do some research behind it, it may help me grasp a better understanding for my project and it will help me choose which typefaces would be appropriate for the publication and my website and the reasoning behind my choice in typefaces. Here is a video I watched of the basic history on typography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOgIkxAfJsk that Anne recommended we watch due to some feedback I had with my choices of typography wasn't matching on the website and on the publication, I am glad I wayched this video as it helped me understand what typefaces work well and which ones don't work quite so well.
Here is some notes I took on from the video about typography about who made some of the typefaces and what the differences in typography is with how the evolution of type has grown, looking at old fashioned typography, the slab serifs and serif typefaces, geometric, pixel typefaces and not forgetting the sans serifs & all the other sans typefaces.
Here is a timeline I made on the innovations of type design, the reason why I did this was to get a better understanding on how typography works the significance of the typeface and to generically get the understanding of the history behind typography so it'll help me decipher which typefaces to use for my publication and website, but more so for the publication.
Beginning of typography design innovations
15th and 16th Century Typography
16-19th Century Typography
19th and 20th Century Typography
20th & 21st century Typography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN_YP48vm-c this here is a YouTube video talk by Dan Rhaigan about type design and its all to do with the interfaces of typography and all to do with how it works in design in a modernised aesthetics. Here are some screenshots I took of the talk covering different typography facts on how it would work in the future and how it can be a simplistic minimal tool with a lot of power.
This is one of the first things said about typefaces from the guy at the talk that I watched and despite typography is not my biggest strength I do agree with this "the guy said in the talk which is typography is more than just the type faces it's what we do with them and I agree that because when I think back to what I create the typeface can be great to use but only when you know what you're doing with them and based on how they work and what will be best suited and this is something I have learnt through my journey of the project and it's interesting in the way he worded it because it is true that when you do type design it's not just the typeface it's to do with the layout of the typeface so know what I mean is that when you do a layout design if it's a spread the newspaper spread or a comic strip the typeface is can be good but it can make a piece of art in a sense that what you do with the typeface can make it strong if you have an experiment with the layout and depending on what you do when you're creating the layout of whatever you're designing. Which is what I think he is trying to say at this point in the talk.
This next bit here is a face created by Francisco Griffo, which contains a very old-fashioned typeface on this publication and is one of the earliest typefaces before the metal typeface movement came out with the metal moveable type by Guttenburg. Before the innovations of typography came around they tire monks to do the writing for them and they dry all handwritten and it will all be in the calligraphy style aesthetic. Which is also something that Dan Rhaigan brought up in the talk.
With this next part of two and then talked about the optimal size of the typography which is what the point size is present as you can see below in a much bigger scale but each size gradually gets bigger and what he tries to say a lot of his talk is when you do Evan type of design and publication design I said what's good about it is when do you want to zoom in or out of the website do you have infused email to the website the text optical size will shrink with the motions of the website tab shrinking and the same for if you want the site to have bigger viewpoint your website via publication or design you're creating that will increase the size of the optical sizes to make the website bigger Richard I think it's cool this is the Times New Roman font which contains serifs in the type. Which gives the typeface an old-fashioned aesthetic.
With this part of the talk was very technical with the typography elements, talking about the database of typography which he talked about the colour gradients for the text and it is about each character in the typefaces and it keeps the data in the font.
With this section of the talk covered what variable fonts are which is where there's a font like Helvetica or Baskerville and there is more than one version, looking at the weight of the typeface if it was regular, italic or bold variations etc.
This part of the talk Dan spoke about the fonts in typography having axis in them which is all to do with the paragraphs in the text. You can see the differences between the justified version of the text layout in the paragraph and for the left aligned text which he spoke about briefly in the talk.
With this part of the talk he mentioned about the technology behind the typography talking about the different technological aspects of the typography about how the interface works and the different formulates of the various fonts.
This part of the talk Dan said a description on what responsive design where he spoke about the type- the lettering and the colour of the type too. Where he mentioned fairly early onto the talk about type design.
With this part of the talk Dan. was talking about the emphasis on typography and the power it can have in a piece of design. with the yellow box compared to the text above, the text above has the best legibility black and white put together is often easiest for people to read because they're the boldest and more on the striking side but in actual fact the light reflects too much onto the whitened text whereas with the yellow box in the background gives the text more emphasis in the writing, which is therefore more effective for things like warning signs for danger or signs for airports tend to be in this aesthetic like what is shown above in Dan's talk.
This here was sbown in the near-end of the talk where Dan spoke in more detail about the coding for typography, where the settings will shoe you the width (WDTH) The weight of the text (WGHT) and the The optical size (OPSZ)
This here is a couple websites and links Dan mentioned about on his talk which I am intending on browsing to see what other people have created with typography also.
These here were some examples of some of the designs that Dan did on the talk and showed different aesthetics and genres of type design showing examples of contemporary/modern typographic design techniques and what you can do with them.
I like how quirky this typeface looks, I like that there is two colours in an individual character/latter and I like the fact that the consistency of the colour co-ordination is in this font variation.
I liked the aesthetics of this typeface I liked the colour co-ordination choice with this text, I like how cold looking it looks there's definitely a complete contrast from the text above in the colour co-ordination and again I like how each character (Letter) has a gradient like aesthetic.
This variation he created is fairly modern but I can see this aesthetic being used in coffee shops or bars rather than a publication on badge collecting tin, but I do like the aesthetic of this typeface, there is no doubt about that. It's just too fancy of a genre I'd happily go for personally.
Font playground
After watching the video talk from Dan, I decided to have a browse at different typography programmes to see if I can use what the person on the talk spoke about into my work as well and one of the ones I come across after watching the talk was font playground which I am considering in using some elements in my publication and if don't use them this time I will be using them for future projects.
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