Calligraphic Tendencies in San Serif Type Design
This is the second half of what I produced for my Masters degree. Brief: This brief came about on its own accord while I was conducting research for Umano Sans. I was looking for books that could give me some sort of direction when it came to producing a humanist, san serif or calligraphic typeface. There was nothing, which simply meant I had to do everything from scratch. Having already done a large amount of research into calligraphy and its aesthetics, it became apparent that certain calligraphic hands had components that influenced type designers when choosing specific elements in there designs. These characteristics in particular were of interest to me during this project because it was here that the history of type could be visually found. Writing was the first proper system put in place to communicate on paper, without writing there would be no calligraphy, seeing as calligraphy is writing having been done carefully and precisely. Calligraphy has then influenced type designers by forcing them to include certain elements in there designs to make there letter-forms look balanced and inevitably as legible and readable as possible. From what I had found, the brief that had formed was to produce a publication that explained in some way or another, how calligraphy and its letter-forms could potentially influence humanist san serif type design. This brief suited the lack of books in its area and was a way for me to also document and show what I had come across throughout the project.
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