Type Specimen: My Minaca Serif - by Marlene Metschies

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My Minaca designed by Marlene Metschies

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UPPER CASE

AB C DE F GH I J KLM N O P Q R S T U V WX Y Z

a b c d e f g h i j k lm n o p q r s t u vwx y z lower case

DIACRITICAL MARKS, NUMERALS, SYMBOLS

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47215 609 83

W bracketed serif

no stress

Very little contrast

28 / 33 pt

12 / 14 pt

8 / 9 pt

A writing system A writing system is any conventional method of visually representing verbal communication. While both writing and speech are useful in conveying messages, writing differs in also being a reliable form of information storage and transfer.[1] The processes of encoding and decoding writing systems involve shared understanding between writers and readers of the meaning behind the sets of characters that make up a script. Writing is usually recorded onto a durable medium, such as paper or electronic storage, although non-durable methods may also be used, such as writing on a computer display, on a blackboard, in sand, or by skywriting. The general attributes of writing systems can be placed into broad categories such as alphabets, syllabaries, or logographies. Any particular system can have attributes of more than one category. In the alphabetic category, there is a standard set of letters of consonants and vowels that encode based on the general principle that the letters represent speech sounds.

In a syllabary, each symbol correlates to a syllable or mora. In a logography, each character represents a word, morpheme, or other semantic units. Other categories include abjads, which differ from alphabets in that vowels are not indicated, and abugidas or alphasyllabaries, with each character representing a consonant-vowel pairing. Alphabets typically use a set of 20-to-35 symbols to fully express a language, whereas syllabaries can have 80-to-100, and logographies can have several hundreds of symbols.

Most X-hight terminals have end with a Serif, or have cutted ends

Very little Contrast

Horizontal Serif

Long Ascender

EeGgKk Have a leg that is connected to its diagonal stroke

Medium Descender

Baseline terminals have a ends with Serifs

Point typographique

Minaca Minaca Minaca Minaca Minaca

72pt

60pt

48pt

36pt

30pt

Minaca

24pt

Minaca

18pt

Minaca

14pt 12pt

Minaca

APERTURE & COUNTER The steam is straight

The stroke has no big contrast

No stress

The body of the letter is curved and rounded, but the curvatur is not quite regularly

42

8 / 9 pt

Es fiel Regen in jener Nacht, ein feiner, wispernder Regen. Noch viele Jahre später musste Meggie bloß die Augen schließen und schon hörte sie ihn, wie winzige Finger, die gegen die Scheibe klopften.

Irgendwo in der Dunkelheit bellte ein Hund, und Meggie konnte nicht schlafen, so oft sie sich auch von einer Seite auf die andere drehte.

Unter ihrem Kissen lag das Buch, in dem sie gelesen hatte. Es drückte den Einband gegen ihr Ohr, als wollte es sie wieder zwischen seine bedruckten Seiten locken.

„Oh, das ist bestimmt sehr bequem, so ein eckiges, hartes Ding unterm Kopf“, hatte ihr Vater gesagt, als er zum ersten Mal ein Buch unter ihrem Kissen entdeckte. „Gib zu, es flüstert dir nachts seine Geschichte ins Ohr.“ - „Manchmal!“, hatte Meggie geantwortet. „Aber es funktioniert nur bei Kindern.“ Dafür hatte Mo sie in die Nase gezwickt. Mo. Meggie hatte ihren Vater noch nie anders genannt.

In jener Nacht - mit der so vieles begann und so vieles sich für alle Zeit änderte - lag eins von Meggies Lieblingsbüchern

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Detail of the Serifs

ascender without serifs have hard edges

soft rounded bracketed serifs on both sides

unbracketed serif

corners are rounded

bigger serifs, also rounded

scooped serifs

bevel serif

vertical serif with edges and curves

letters without serifs are exceptions and have a sharp edge

No cuts of the X-Hight terminals

Letters with a bevel Line have always Serifs

x

VYA

upper case

kvy lower case

w

Cut of the X-Hight terminal {w}

MWZ

upper case

@

Xo

Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen Typeface designed by Marlene Metschies

WUP 18/19 Prof. Antonino Benincasa Gian Marco Favretto Maximilian Boiger

Calligraphy Workshop by Mag. Art. Eva Pรถll Font created with Illustrator & Fontself