PRWR 4800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Romain Du Roi, Blackletter, Monotype Grotesque
22 Mar 2018
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Iii choosing & mixing fonts: mixing serifs and sans[es] Iv alignment: alignment, hyphens, & justi cation, uses and issues. Active & passive white space: active white space. O ers breathing room for the eye as it travels across pages & screens. Facilitates meaning: breaks up words & ideas. Framing function: frames text & image units. Creates paths: informs the eye as to how to navigate pages/documents. Creates sense of luxury : spacing suggests ease in documents: passive white space. De nitions: passive [local] object space: between letters [kerning] Leftover white space: unintentional, non-functional white space. Margins & spacing: have grouping functions, create structure, white space isn"t always white. Any background [bg] colour can provide white space. Why learn them: font classi cations were codi ed in the 20thc. Based on roman monumental script [capital quadrata] Modern examples: bembo, garamond, goudy old style. Romain du roi: fonts designed on graphs/detached from hand script.
