Todays task seen us bring a collection of Typefaces, all spelling the well known Typographers pangram: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'. I'm familiar with pangram's, I based a project around them last year. Their purpose is to showcase all the glyphs from A-Z in a Typeface.
The purpose of the exercise was to understand the difference in legibility of Type, and how that relates to the readability of it. We were instructed to bring difference styles of type with us: Grotesk, Roman, Script and Block. I chose Avenir, Trajan and Futura ExtraBold Condensed; respectively some of my favourites from each category.
The interesting part is when you start to read certain words in the wrong order depending on their style and the order, which was intentional. It was also strange to see how this reading order altered too depending on your personal distance away from the sentences.
I've learned that there's more to Type than just choosing it because of the content. It has to be readable and legible too, as well as well informed in regard to the arena it will be viewed in.
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