Alphabet Soup Pt 1 - Seminar handouts/type categories.

Here are images of the handouts from a seminar with Fred on 27/09/2010.

This seminar was briefing us into what we will be looking into for our Visual Thinking module (brief). We learnt that there is basically more to typography than meets the eye, and that it is the visual way to voice what we think.

Over the summer we were set an additional task along side the Alphabet task we received to collet together 20 examples of each letter in the alphabet. After the seminar we got together in our blog groups and put all the examples of letters that we collected together. We then observed our collection and chose the letter that we found we had more examples of: ours was the letter B, and used them to make a list of categories (serif, sans serif, bold, uppercase, etc...).

From the list of categories we found, the more important/common ones that the letters can be put into are:

• Uppercase.
• Lowercase.
• Light.
• Regular.
• Bold.
• Italic.
• Serif.
• Sans Serif.
• Font.
• Scale.