Skeptical_DISPLAYKEYWORD
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author(s): Cristina Grácio
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
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.
On the origin of patterning in movable Latin type : Renaissance standardisation, systematisation, and unitisation of textura and roman type
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author(s): Frank Blokland
connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
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This PhD-research by Frank Blokland is conducted to test the hypothesis that Gutenberg and consorts developed a standardised and even unitised system for the production of textura type, and that this system was extrapolated for the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy.
For roman type, Humanistic handwriting was moulded into a prefixed standardised system already developed for the production of gothic type. This was possible because there is an intrinsic morphological relationship between the structures of the written textura quadrata and the Humanistic minuscule.
Renaissance typographic patterning was in part determined by prerequisites for the production of type. The typographic conventions are not purely the result of optical preferences predating the invention of movable type but are also the result of the standardisation of characters in the Renaissance type production. By mapping the underlying harmonic and rhythmic aspects, we gain more insight into what exactly the creative process in type design comprises, and what its constraints are. Furthermore, it makes the parameterisation of digital type-design processes possible.
Alverata, hedendaagse Europese letters met wortels in de middeleeuwen
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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.