The fourth update hits now. As always feedback is most appreciated as I am open to revision suggestions.
I’ll try to get these updates going weekly soon so I can get this done before the end of the year. (And try harder to get the word out.)
Look under the fold for the next installment to my Visual Typography Project.
I love typography to death. Then I love dissecting it’s entrails. Of particular enjoyment to me is learning all the jargon associated with typography. Lucky for me there’s a lot of it. But I’ve noticed something.
I’ve looked at the websites. I’ve read the books. And through them all, they’ve been lacking one critical connection. Putting faces to the names, as it were. Or names to faces. It seems that most sites that talk about typography are very good at talking about it, but aren’t so great on giving picture examples. Other, less typographically-focussed design websites will post up a random smattering of letters and maybe describe a few of the terms. Maybe. Throw into that confusion that different sites will give the same term different meanings or the same features different names and soon nobody knows what to call anything.
I have problems with that. It has kept me up some nights.
