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Semi-official Community Relations group for the Traditional and Digital Typography and Digital Text Art galleries on dA.

Daily Deviations
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Super Group
Until Mar 8, 2014

Founded 4 Months ago
Jan 1, 2013

Location
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49 Members
63 Watchers
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How to design a typeface (Part 1)How to design a typeface (Part 1)
Sans serif — Roman

In this article/tutorial I will show you how to design a typeface. I will cover the basics and show you how to design advanced letters as well. There is so much I can talk about though, so if people like this article I might expand on this with future articles and get more into detail. I will only cover the design though, so you will have to research how to do the spacing and programming and turn your typeface into a usable font—or wait until I might do an article on that as well, but I don’t have such an article planned anytime soon.
What will we design?
I will first show you how to design some basic letters for a geometric sans typeface like Futura, because it utilizes geometric shapes, which is always my starting point for every typeface regardless of style. OHow to design a typeface (Part 1) by *MartinSilvertant

Typography Series - 01 - Anatomy of typography by *MartinSilvertant

Typography Series - 02 - Ligatures by *MartinSilvertant

Typography Series - 03 - Numeral sets by *MartinSilvertant

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History of Roman typefacesHistory of Roman typefaces
Typefaces are our instruments to construct words and sentences. Of course this very article couldn’t be written without type other than writing by hand and scanning it in, but I wouldn’t know how to save the file or how to access the website to upload it to if I had no access to typefaces. Of course I don’t have to say where type can be found; it’s absolutely everywhere. However, most people don’t consider where typefaces come from. Most of my life and even the first 5 years or so of my design career I was absolutely ignorant of where typefaces came from. I mean, they were just "there" on the computer and I never considered someone actually had to make typefaces for us to use—letter by letter. In this article I will discuss the history of Roman typefaces; how it progressed during the ages, how each style can be recognized and how to select typefaces consciously and logically rHistory of Roman typefaces by *MartinSilvertant

Mastering TypographyMastering Typography

Typography is a rather obscure field, which is quite odd because typography is in everything you read. As such, it’s very important for a graphic designer to know everything there is to know about typography and preferably also the history and anatomy of typefaces. Bad typography is usually only consciously noticeable by type geeks (like me), however even someone who knows absolutely nothing about typography will find text with bad typography harder to read. In this article you will learn some basic principles and features to advance your typography.
Software
Before we have a look at the features to improve your typography we have to select the right software. A few features which will be discussed in this article can be used pretty much regardless of the software but for most things you have to use genuine design software, so a program like Microsoft Word won’t suffice. You can achievMastering Typography by *MartinSilvertant

ABCs of Text Art & Typography // #3: S - Z#projecteducate presents: ABCs of Text Art & Typography.
Today: #3 // S - Z.
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Serif
Is a characteristic of a typeface. It is a style element added to the end of strokes on a typeface. It is characteristic for Roman typefaces.
Serif fonts on a copy text are easier to read in print publications than other fonts.
Sans-Serif
Is a typeface without Serifs, Sans being french for without. Sans-Serif typefaces can be referred to as Grotesque or Gothic typefaces.
Sans-Serif fonts ona copy text are easier to read on online publications, because Serif fonts would blur too much when reading long paragraphs.
Specimen
A sample sheet of a font can be called Specimen. It shows the glyphs contained in a font and different style of the typeface. Often a Pangram is included to show the range of a typeface. FontdesignABCs of Text Art & Typography // #3: S - Z by ^pica-ae

ABCs of Text Art & Typography // #2: I - R#projecteducate presents: ABCs of Text Art & Typography.
Today: #1 // I - R.
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Initial
Stands at the beginning of a copytext; a chapter or a paragraph. It is considerably bigger than the rest of the copy, usually several lines high. It can be a simple letter or an decorated character.
A fine example of creating initials is the Daily Drop Cap Blog by Jessica Hische.

Italic
Is a cursive font style based on handwriting. The typeface is usually slanting to the right, on serif fonts serifs and vertical lines may become rounder and curvy; on sans serif fonts occasionally serifs are added on the italic style.
It is supposed to be the handwritten version of the typeface in use, therefore it ABCs of Text Art & Typography // #2: I - R by ^pica-ae

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Typo Feature: Ambigrams

Wed May 22, 2013, 8:08 AM

Welcome to today's Typo Feature!
In this ongoing series each article will focus on a specific theme and showcase deviations that manage to convey the theme in a special and great manner.

This feature's theme will be ambigrams.

Ambigrams are a subform of Caligraphy, usually keeping up the style of being drawn by brush or pen, but often with stricter, more geometric forms.

The most famous kind of Ambigrams are those, in which when rotated 180° you will see the same image. Another popular form are Mirror-Image Ambigrams, which result in the same artwork when flipped horizontally or vertically.

Some artists manage to place two words in one Ambigram. By rotating or flipping the artwork, a new word can be read.

There are many forms of ambigrams, some easier to create than others. Words can be natural rotational ("suns" or "pod") or mirror-image ("bud") ambigrams.

Ambigrams are popular elements in logo designs, as they give a high level of back detection from the audience.

Read about Ambigrams on Wikipedia or visit the Open Directory section on Ambigrams for more examples.

Check out #AmbigramCentral, a group dedicated to ambigrams

I hope you enjoyed this feature and maybe it even inspired you, to create your own ambigram. If you do, please share them with us

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May 22, 2013 Typo Feature: Ambigrams
May 21, 2013 About Stock (and Typography)
May 19, 2013 How to design a typeface (Part 2)
Apr 2, 2013 How to design a typeface (Part 1)
Apr 2, 2013 Text Art and Typography - February/March 2013
Mar 11, 2013 Suggested Changes for the Fonts Gallery
Feb 13, 2013 Lettering vs Calligraphy
Feb 3, 2013 Typotalks with ~eugeniaclara!
Jan 31, 2013 Text and Typography - January 2013
Jan 15, 2013 Input needed - Traditional Typography Gallery!

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*MartinSilvertant Apr 25, 2013 Professional General Artist

Hey, I want to post a new journal but I don't have permission.

=G3Drakoheart-Arts Mar 2, 2013 Student General Artist

Hi there, I wanna know how can I submit my fonts here (if I can, please).

^pica-ae Mar 3, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

I am sorry, this group is not about collecting and showcasing artworks, except for Daily Deviatons

There are many other +Groups that focus on fonts and/or typography, that will accept your submissions

*MartinSilvertant Jan 30, 2013 Professional General Artist

I added my last two typography articles to the article folder but then I remembered what you said about the blog. Should I place the articles as blogs instead?

^pica-ae Jan 31, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

There is nothing wrong with having them both in the gallery and the blog

So you can submit them to the blog now, too. If you need help with that, let me know. Just in case, I know many people don't like to use sta.sh (writer)

*MartinSilvertant Jan 31, 2013 Professional General Artist

It took me a bit to get used to sta.sh but I'm doing fine with it now. I don't think I will run into any problems.

*MartinSilvertant Jan 31, 2013 Professional General Artist

Haha it seems I was overconfident. I submitted the last two Journals with Sta.sh to two groups before but I can't find where to do this anymore. I checked for tutorials but they're either not descriptive of where to find the options or they refer to a publishing options panel on the right I seem to miss. Could you tell me in steps what to do to get to this panel?

^pica-ae Jan 31, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

Excellent

*MartinSilvertant Jan 30, 2013 Professional General Artist

Also, if I were to add those articles to the gallery, 'Mastering Typography' is a proper tutorial. If you want me to add these to the gallery, let me know in which category you would prefer them.

And lastly, I'm wondering if you already have a challenge in mind.

*MartinSilvertant Jan 29, 2013 Professional General Artist

I can't submit any work even though I'm a member. Do you know what's wrong?

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