Form and Counterform

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Form & Counterform Futura Baskerville Garamond Bodoni Gill Sans Memphis

Kaori Murata



Futura Paul Renner Germany, 1924 Sans Serif Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface. The typeface is constructed with simple geometric forms using squares, triangles and circles.



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Baskerville John Baskerville England, 1763 Transitional Baskerville is based on the typeface Caslon. It has higher contrast between the strokes while the serifs become more tapered and sharaper as a result.


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Garamond Claude Garamond France, 1532 Old Style/Renaissance Garamond conveys a sense of fludiy and consistency. It is considered to be one of the most legible serif typefaces.


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Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni Italy 1767 Modern Bodoni is a narrow modern typeface with extreme contrasts between thick and thin strokes. It is more condensed and vertical with flatter serifs.


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Gill Sans Eric Gill England, 1931 Sans Serif Gill Sans is a sans serif typeface. It was designed with legibility in mind as a sans-serif typeface for text. It is less geometric and mechanical compared to Futura due to the influence of traditional Roman proportions.


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Memphis Rudollf Weiss Germany 1929 Slab Serif Memphis is a slab serif with a consistent thickness of stroke in both the stem and slab serif of the typeface. It is very geometric and is also classified as an Egyptian typeface.


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