What is a Typeface

What is a Typeface?

What is a Typeface?

4. Type is black and white.

6. Type is forms of black and white.

8. It is a dance between forms and counterforms.

10. It is made up of individual and related components.

12. These components can be rearranged to create standard units.

14. These units can be combined to create a shape.

16.These shapes can be

16. The shapes can be combined on a page to create visual greys.

18. The combinations can tell a story.

20. The leading can chance space in a story.

22. The kerning can change the density of a story.

24. Type communicates by representing languages. .

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Featuring the Santa Maria Del Fiore by Arnolfo di Cambio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Il Ratto di Proserpina, the Tower of Pisa by architect Bonanno Pisano, found street type, as well as original illustrations.

This book was designed by Megan Stansbury in the spring semester of 2019 at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts abroad program in Florence.

Typset in Helvetica Neue designedby Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann at the Haas ype Foundry.