I decided to teach myself typography terminology. And what better way to learn anything but to write it on a blackboard and make sure you stare at it a hundred times a day ?
Each piece took around 1 to 2 hours, and was left hanging for 2 days in my room. I mostly used a chalk marker, which is not quite chalk and not quite a marker - but once you get the hang of it, you can get some seriously subtle thickness changes that make for an easier Roman capital calligraphy.
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I disagree with your characterization of slab serif though, it doesn't have to be monowidth to be slab! e.g. Clarendon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clarendon.svg
You're right, I considered writing "very little or no change" but thought it would take up too much space !
That being said, Wikipedia does classify Clarendon as a special subcategory of slab, because it's much closer to a modern font than the other slabs : the serifs have brackets, and there's a very visible change from thick to thin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_serif#Clarendon_model
Never heard of overshoot before!
ReplyDeleteI disagree with your characterization of slab serif though, it doesn't have to be monowidth to be slab! e.g. Clarendon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clarendon.svg
You're right, I considered writing "very little or no change" but thought it would take up too much space !
DeleteThat being said, Wikipedia does classify Clarendon as a special subcategory of slab, because it's much closer to a modern font than the other slabs : the serifs have brackets, and there's a very visible change from thick to thin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_serif#Clarendon_model