ill1 sans is a humanist sans serif typeface, Eric Gill was a Graphic artist, sculptor and a typeface designer. Eric Gill designed the typeface to look well or display well. It was desined in 1927, and it contains fourteen different styles.
A2 typeface is a set of one or more letter's and will include a choice of bold, or italic typeface. Also Gill sans will offer alphabet of letter's, numerals and punctuation marks. One of the great uses of Gill Sans is that it has a distinct character of its own. It is said that the Gill Sans family works will together.
Gill Sans achieved national prominence almost immediately. It became used on many things like the Railway signs it was also used on the Penguin books. Others were to follow because Gill Sans was the best selling typeface of the twentieth century, and it still thrives to this day.
The 3upper case of Gill Sans was taken from Roman capitals like those found on the column of Trajan. But if it wasn't for Stanley Morison Gill Sans wouldn't have seen printing ink. The originally Gill Sans typeface was released in metal type. Type foundries have cast fonts in lead alloys from 1950s to the present day. Digital typefaces are also different because they store each character as a bitmap.Typographers have developed a comprehensive vocabulary for describing the many aspects of typefaces and typography. Typefaces emerged when foundries began to include typefaces that included significant structural differences.
Most Type scrips share a baseline, a line that isn't really there which allows the Type to rest on. The line is called a desender, It spans the distance between the baseline and the top of the glyph. Typeface can be split into to categories serifs and sans and great varity exists among both serif and sans TypeFaces with serif are easier to read. This probley makes it easier to read on web pags aswell.
2 Hidden Gem
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11 comments:
Hey Mark. Hope it went smoothly. Did you post in time?
Good use of the font in your introduction and presentation Mark but you do need to watch your SPG. I note you were a little later presenting the journal which is a shame because you appear to have researched it well and maybe didn't allow sufficient time to proof read before submitting.
I think it would still be worth editing and maybe look at breaking up some of the large chunks of text into more paragraphs at the same time.
Hi Mark.
I think what Martyn has said is pretty much all that can be said.
It is very well researched, interesting to read and informative.
The only thing I picked up on was the missing space: "glyph.Typeface" in the second to last sentence.
Regards,
Sam
Looks good Mark, I like the way you start off with an image.
Hi Mark,
A real good insight into typefaces themselves there! As Martyn commented, maybe breaking you paragraphs up a little will give it a cleaner look.
I really like the way you started your piece with an image, good job mate.
Regards,
Brad
Hi Mark, I think you need to check the last paragraph as it has many SPG errors. Such as "probley" should be "probably". Also you have "this line is called a descender," you then have a comma which should be a full stop.
You also have "web pags" when it should be "pages".
Remember to break up those Paragraphs.
Dominic
Hi Mark,
I think you have provided some good information in relation to this font.
For me there are still a number of issues I would like to mention and I'm sure you'll appreciate the comments as I know you want to get things spot on.
For me the chunking still needs work.
There are still numerous SPG issues. One I don't think other people have picked up on is that some of your paragraphs start on one topic and switch on a completely new one without any warning.
Your referencing also appears to be inconsistent.
Finally the to me the last paragraph is screaming out for an explanitory picture.
Hope these comments help.
Hi Mark,
A well researched and informative piece. I can't really find anything that hasn't already been pointed out, i.e. SPG and chunking.
Regards, Nick
Hi Mark,
Love the image use at the beginnign of your opening paragraph! Certainly something I wouldn't have thought of doing.
As previously mentioned you need to take a bit more care with your proof reading to avoid the SPG mistakes which are present. Easier said than done with a deadline looming I know.
You've obviously put a lot of time and effort into yuor research maybe on this case a bit too long.
I'm sure on future tasks you'll allow yourself more time for proof reading so that the finished article is spot on.
All the best,
Ian
Hi Mark,
Good post. A good use of images to show the font you have chosen.
As previously mentioned, you just need to take care with your SPG for the main article. As for the title you might consider a lowercase 'O' for of, but that's only a small thing really.
Other than that it's not bad. Well done, Mark.
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