Thoughts about the animal logos

I think that the animal I chose (the chimp) has been a very good choice. I think it is easier for me to draw and come up with designs more so than my first animal. I first chose a giraffe and I am so happy that I switched because I think I would have had a really hard time trying to draw it in so many different ways. I also am surprised that no one else chose a monkey so I feel like I have to take it on for everyone. I think that I am having the hardest troubles with the graphical and gesture drawings. I think I finally have a graphical one that I like but I have yet to find any gestures ones that I like and I am starting to get frustrated with it. I have already started on the next set of 5 because I have always found myself to have the best outcome if I stop something and go back to it later. So my plan as of now is to move on to the next set of five and come back with fresh eyes at my first set of five and see if there is anything I have thought of that would help my improve them.

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Perpetua

Old Style: Low contrast with diagonal stress, "bracketed" serifs, and based on a handwriting.

EX: Bembo, Caslon, Garamond, Jenson, Palatino

Transitional: Contrast between thick and thin strokes is more pronounced, bracketed serifs, and tall x-height.

EX: Baskerville, Caslon, Perpetua, Times Roman, and Adriane Text

Modern: Hairline serifs, No horizontal stress, no influence by handwriting

EX:Bodoni, Bauer Bodini, Walbaum, Bell, and Didot

Square Serif: mono weight, No stress, Uniform serifs

EX: Serifa, Rockwell, Memphis Clarendon, New Century Schoolbook, Stymie

Sans Serif: Oval shapes and variations in stroke thickness, human appearance

EX: Gill Sans, Meta, Frutiger, Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Helvetica

Script: Based off of handwriting, similar to cursive, looser

EX: Blackadder, Edwardian, French, John Hancock, Kunstler

Blackletter: used through Europe, sometimes called Old English,

EX: Franktur, Schwabacher, Cursiva, Hybrida, Donatus Kalendar

Grunge:rebellious, most recent typographic wave, seen in magazines

EX:Template Gothic, Cyberotica, Truth,  Nguyen's Droplet, Cantante

Monospaced: every glyph is the same width, W and M are wider, I is narrower

EX: Fixed, Courier, Letter Gothic, MS Gothic, Arial, HyperFont

PERPETUA: 

Sans Serif or Serif: Serif

Designer: Eric Gill 

Date: 1928

Classification: Transitional

Family Members: Roman, Italic, Small caps, Bold, Bold Italic, Bold Oldstyle, Bold Italic and Oldstyle

Baseline: bottom alignment of the letters

Cap Height: Height of the capital letters

x-Height: Height of the lowercase x

Serif Style: short strokes at bottom

Stroke Width: thickness of each letter

Apex: Peak of capital A

Final/ Terminal: beginning and end of the letter

Barb: Flat part on some capital letters

Spur: extras on the capital G

Ear: part that hangs off of a lowercase g

Loop: curve of g

Link: part that links one story with the other

One Story G/ Two Story G: curve and close up g is two story "handwriting" g is one

Tail: part that comes off of Q

Leg: farthest line on the right of capital K, P, R

Inspiration

http://typenav.fontshop.com/

September 8, 2010

Univers is important because it is one of the most unique fonts. It has 44 different faces and 16 different numbered weight, position combination and width. It is one of the few fonts that support the Central European characters. Adrian Frutiger is very well known for his designs in typography. Adrian grew up thinking about types and handwritings because when he was younger he would experiment with different styles and widths of types. He put these skills to use when he became a apprentice in his homeland of Switzerland. The president of the type foundry finally recognized his talent and offered him a job in Paris at his company. After this adventure he set out on his own and opened his own business but while he was at Deberny and Peignot he created the type we use today called Univers.