PS: What is a letter?
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Dora Isleifsdottir, Åse Huus, Victoria Squire
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
PS: What is a letter?
is an artistic research project in progress by Dóra Ísleifsdóttir, Åse Huus, and Victoria Squire.
Skeptical_DISPLAYKEYWORD
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Cristina Grácio
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In the course unit Type Design, of the master's degree in graphic design and editorial projects, it was proposed the development of a display font for the word Raphesion123. With this, I developed a neo-grotesque non-serif font called skeptical.
Alverata, hedendaagse Europese letters met wortels in de middeleeuwen
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Gerard Unger
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
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This research of Gerard Unger is only available in Dutch.
De kern hiervan is een letterontwerp, gebaseerd op de combinatie van een middeleeuws en een hedendaags concept. Het middeleeuwse deel betreft de elfde en de twaalfde eeuw, de romaanse periode, en in het bijzonder de epigrafie van die tijd: romaanse kapitalen in inscripties. Deze kapitalen werden gedurende tweehonderd jaar in een groot deel van Europa toegepast. Hiernaast zijn velerlei typografische en culturele ontwikkelingen in de twintigste en de eenentwintigste eeuw de bron voor het nieuwe letterontwerp. De Alverata toont enkele middeleeuwse kenmerken die wonderwel met de modernste typografische software en voor hedendaags gebruik is toe te passen. Bovendien kan de Alverata het uitgangspunt zijn voor vernieuwend leesbaarheidsonderzoek.
Typeface design for visually impaired children
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Ann Bessemans
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Due to the low quality level of visual input they receive in the form of printed text, beginning visually impaired readers are at a disadvantage in comparison to their peers. In the past, typography has often been looked upon as a useful instrument to improve the legibility of the printed reading material that is being offered to children with low vision. However, the legiblity research efforts that were at the base of this conception were not always of good quality. In cognitive science for example, many efforts were made that were methodologically correct, yet the test material (the used typefaces) had little to do with reality. Many typefaces that were supposed to improve legibility were also suggested by typographers themselves, but the reasoning behind them was hardly ever sufficiently methodologically supported. Moreover, most legibility research focused on people with low vision in general, ignoring the fac t that visually impaired children constitute a very particular group with specific issues. This doctoral research project by in design, by Ann Bessemans, seeks to shed a light on legibility in the context of visually impaired beginning readers. Starting from these findings and from a legibility research a first step is given to design a typeface that will be able to provide support for the target group of visually impaired children in the first stages of the reading process.