Emotional Fonts

Maybe I can discuss a little bit about the Bringhurst chapters. He believes that typography should be used to enhance the experience given while reading the content of a text, while staying true to it's original content. I thought the reasons he gave to why typography should enhance a text where very biased by his obvious admiration of the written medium.

Expressions like "honoring content" are subjective, simply because the definition of honor is very subjective itself, it may vary depending on cultures, contries and individuals.

During the lab part of thuesday's class, we had to attach a certain font to pictures we had taken of ourselves. Look at the results for yourself.

For the Reflection font, I wanted a sober and straith forward font, it was not very hard to find one, many applied for this image.

I knew that the "surprised" font needed motion, my original idea was to find a font with some kind of 3D effect, where the letters would be larger over the x-height than the part under the x-height. I did not find the font I desired so I had to opt for a liquid/squeashy font.

I wanted an unstable font for the "doubtful" font and I found exactly what I was looking for a water/wavy font, representing moving ideas and uncertain representation.











Big Crazy Font For Happy !!! Yay !!!

I tried to make a melancolia face here, but it turned out to look more liek a was "drowsy" ... I do not know what I would have used for melancolia, but I am pretty happy of my "drowsy" font. The letters looks tired, falling on each others or going downwards like the "y", also stylised preparing the dream state.

The is the best "angry" face I can make, I rarely get angry and when I do it is not that intense, so this small but dynamic/spiky font fits best my experience as "angry".

Link to a small flash using those images.

Love/Hate Fonts

Yesterday in class we discussed in group of 3 wich font we favored and wich one we hated the most. My choices were :







I Generally love highly stylized light fonts like Papyrus, Parchement and Tempus Sans ITC.
Those types of fonts can rarely be used intelligently, but I feel they are always interresting to read.

I hate the Jokerman for being plain ugly and being conceptually bad. Even if I wanted to make my text look prankster or funny, I would never use this font.

Can't say muh about Arial, well because I'm indifferent to it.

Then after every individual of the group had choosen their most and least favorites, we choose wich one we liked and hated most as a group.




We Hated Typewriter because of the bad spacing, also because of the nostalgic feel of an old typewriting machine.

We liked Verdana for its versatillity, its simplicity, its good readability and design uses.

The Next Text Introduction

This will be my weekly blog for my CART 355c course.

I must precise that I never had a typography class before and therefore my views on the subject may be limited... for now !