Typography Demystified Readings

For today’s assignment we were given readings about the classifications of typefaces. There was a lot that I did not know about the study of typefaces that was interesting to me.

Robert Bringhurst was a particularly cool part of the reading. His system of classifying type is primarily set in Art history periods, which I think is a really cool way of classifying type. This is just fascinating to me, but it makes a lot of sense the more that I think about it.

It was also really cool to read all the historical text on typefaces. One part that stood out in these parts, from the first reading about Making sense of Type classifications, was that each style of type belongs to a certain type family, but each style also has their own unique identifiers. Such as the Garalde type that is still described as a humanistic type.

Another cool fact that I did not know was that glyphic types are derived from chisel instead of other type. Again, this makes sense to me, but I just never put two and two together.

From the final reading, I was not aware of the usage of type in coding. Specifically the usage of monospaced type. It was obvious after I think about it, but it still took me by surprise.

These readings were a little dry, but ultimately I am glad that they were assigned. I love the foundational history of all the courses that I take. It is always really cool for me to see themes that cross various subjects that I take.