In this unit, we learned the importance of typography and found out different personalities of each fonts. The definition of typography is the design of the word, which makes the mood of the font. Typography is important because each designs of the words makes different feeling from the text. The quote "Each font has a personality and a purpose" clearly sets an evidence of this. This quote means that according to the font, the purpose and the personality of the word becomes different, too, since each font has a different personality. The first font we learned in class is Serif, which has a "feet" on the edges of the font. Serif is usually used when printing large blocks of text. The second font we learned in class is San Serif, which does not have feet at all. San Serif is usually used for smaller chunks of text, such as titles and headlines. The third font we learned in class is Monospaced, which each letter has the same amount of space. Monospaced fonts are usually used in smaller blocks of text, such as coding since it has a lot of spaces between the fonts. The fourth font we learned in class is Script/Handwritten, which looks like our normal cursive, calligraphy, or hand-writing. Since they are sometimes hard to read, they are usually used in logos or large headlines. The last font we learned in class is Novelty, which immediately grabs the audience's eyes due to its uniqueness. They are usually used sparingly and its popularity comes and goes. Typeface Comparison For the Typeface Comparison activity, I was asked to use same words but different fonts to compare the different styles of the fonts. I also used skills we learned in previous lessons such as alignments to make sure the fonts were in given the same setting to get compared. Word PortraitsFrom the Word Portrait activity, we used the complete opposite logic of Typeface Comparison. We used different words, but same fonts to see what fonts go along with the words. By this activity, we learned how according to the different atmosphere the word has, you should use different styles of fonts.
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