Okay so notes start now
- Steven Daye brought printing to the Colonies in 1639
- People who made printing presses didn’t make it because
that was all they wanted to do, they were just trying to cash in on the
technology of the time, such as apps and today.
- All history goes on at the same time even with things you
don’t think of together such as The American Civil War (1861-1865) and Van Gogh
(1853-90)
- Rococo design? Look it up.
- Louis Simonneau, 1695. Letters were to be drawn by
scientific principles a square divided into a grid of 64 units each of which
were divided into 36 units for a total of 2304 units.
- Pierre Simon Fournier writes a Manual on Typography
- In the same area, copper plate engraving was fun
Know these fonts:
Old Style – Organic – ascenders pass beyond cap height
Rounded
Transitional – Little harder
Modern -
Egyptian
Sans Serif
Cap height
*ascender line
x-height – defines top of lower cas letters.
base line – what elements sit on
descender line
point size extends from descender line to cap height
- Efficient use of negative space (why bottoms of letters
don’t just sit atop the base line.
- Leading – affects color of the page, measured from base
line to base line, text is generally 20% (point size of face + 20%)
- 12 points = 1 pica, 6 pica = 1 inch, 72 points = 1 inch.
