Chapters 6 & 7
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- Univers
- Adam Frutiger
- What was significant about "Univers"
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# increases - bolder
# decreases - lighter
even - italic
odd - bold - type that uses heat to create it, type that is cast from lead
- hot type
- type created using a lens, negative, and photosensitive paper
- cold type
- designed fonts that look 70s-ish; Artone, Blimp, Myopic and Filmsense
- Seymour Chwast
- Designed Fenice and Eurostyle
- Aldo Novarese
- corporate designer, did over 500 fonts with offbeat, quirky sensibility to them
- Ed Benguiat
- one of the designers of the font family Helvetica
- Max Meidinger
- why is ITC so important?
- the International Typeface Corporation takes classic fonts and redesigns them by making the x-height larger and the fit of text tighter
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get
- designed Chicago for the Apple Computers so it would work well with the pixels and dot matrix printers
- Charles Bigelow
- on of the earliest type designers for the pixelated version of fonts for the Mac
- Zuzana Licko
- early magazine that was laid out using the new PC
- Emigré
- who used PostScript to design contemporary postmodern fonts such as Hard Times Regular?
- Jeff Keedy
- created "We Love Your Font" or "What Every Dutch Boy Carries In His Pocket"
- Max Kinsman
- designed Beowulf, a font that created alternate characters using the computer to generate randomness
- Erik Van Blokland & Just Van Rossum
- created fonts that were geometric, angular and condensed, embodying a Russian Constructivist sensibility
- Neville Brody
- created proprietary typefaces for AT&T and the Walker Art Museum
- Matthew Carter
- creators of Adobe Post Script
- Chuck Geschke & John Warnock
- the kind of a font in which the designer creates the 4 poles of the condensed, light and heavyweight, and then the computer user is able to create different variations of the family by sliding a slider to make the font more condensed or more bold, etc
- Multiple Master
- language of the printers, based on a grid that plots the page and corresponds it to the screen
- Post Script
- the font format that is intended for use on both Mac and PC platforms
- Opentype
- printer whose toner is composed of carbon, plastic and metal dust
- laser
- printer that uses a heat plate to heat a bubble that forces liquid ink out of a jet
- bubblejet or inkjet
- printer that uses a ribbon and a series of pins to create characters
- dot matrix
- famous for designing the Mother and Child logo, a nameplate for a magazine, as well as the Avant Garde nameplate, some say that he is able to illustrate type
- Herb Lubalin
- Great calligrapher who looked to classic inspiration for many of his fonts such as Optima, Melior and Palatino
- Herman Zapf
- although schooled in the International Type design style, he began to utilize a more layered and textured approach to design, breaking some rules
- Wolfgang Weingart
- early name of Adobe Systems, the creator of Post Script
- Interpress