Art620_Project 1_type Blog

This is my Type Blog of some of the type I found, looking around my computer. I searched old photos , scans and logo I worked on in the past.

I'll begin with one of my old photos of the Senator theatre, it seems to be a good example of Neon Typography


The 2nd example is Logo Type. It the logo
For CMBC public access channel 75.



The 3rd example is of Business typography. Ikea used to use Futura on thier old promo pieces.
Check out Ikea now it's a little different.



Some additional sites I've found very interesting are:

This is the artist that aspired Manuel Guerrero 2008- TDC2 2009 Winner - Optica Normal



http://www.andy-nolan.com/testserver/majorSite/overview.php

This is really interesting it talks of Toronto Metro Signage
http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed/

Last, but least for this portion of the project
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/legorama_everywhere

Typeface: Arial

The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saundersfor Monotype Typography. Monotype is the current owner of the copyrights for the Arial font software programs

Contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.

Typeface: Verdana

Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed byMatthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hintingdone by Tom Rickner, then atMonotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft'stypography group. The name "Verdana" is based on a mix ofverdant (something green, as in the Seattle area and the Evergreen state, Washington), and Ana (the name of Howlett's eldest daughter)

Bearing similarities to humanist sans-serif typefaces such asFrutiger, Verdana was designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen. The lack of serifs, large x-height (heights of lower-case letters, as scaled to the letter x being exactly equal to one), wide proportions, loose letter-spacing, large counters (spaces inside partially enclosed portions of letters or symbols such as c, s, or curved quotation marks), and emphasized distinctions between similarly-shaped characters are chosen to increase legibility.

Arial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Verdana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Typeface: Arial

The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saundersfor Monotype Typography. Monotype is the current owner of the copyrights for the Arial font software programs

Contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.

Typeface: Verdana

Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Tom Rickner, then atMonotype. Demand for such a typeface was recognized by Virginia Howlett of Microsoft's typography group. The name "Verdana" is based on a mix ofverdant (something green, as in the Seattle area and the Evergreen state, Washington), and Ana (the name of Howlett's eldest daughter)

Bearing similarities to humanist sans-serif typefaces such as Frutiger, Verdana was designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen. The lack of serifs, large x-height (heights of lower-case letters, as scaled to the letter x being exactly equal to one), wide proportions, loose letter-spacing, large counters (spaces inside partially enclosed portions of letters or symbols such as c, s, or curved quotation marks), and emphasized distinctions between similarly-shaped characters are chosen to increase legibility.

Arial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Verdana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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