presently, and tardily, i am going to be explaining some anatomical points about my garamond "b."
garamond, originally utilized around 1475, had its basis in handwriting. it is part of a classification known as "humanist," or old-style, and its angled stress and angled serifs call up the right-handed 45-ish-degree poise of calligraphy. its capitals are referential to ancient roman carving capitals.
the garamond "b" is composed of the following parts:
a STROKE, or rather a STEM, which is an ASCENDER, and is topped with a soft, angled SERIF, which perches on a left-side BRACKET.
a BOWL, the STRESS of which causes the right side to be thicker than the top or bottom.
a COUNTER, contained by the bowl.
i'm not sure if the TERMINAL at the end of the STEM constitutes a SPUR, or if there is another term for a stroke ending in that way?
concerning my letterform drawings, i'm afraid i erred on the side of perfection, as absurd a statement as that might have been.
i got so caught up in the letterforms themselves, and how they are constructed, and their ratios and angles and curves and straight edges, that i forgot to let myself go and bring them along into a more creative composition. instead i found myself trying to understand them, and to learn how to duplicate them, in the mathematical precision that they were created. which i'm sure is a noble path, but a project for a different time.
early impressions in typography class: probably not good, i hate to say, (i'm so sorry, marty) which is awful, because i love typography more than most other things. but. i will get back on track, get the hang of classes, take in directions more carefully, and the rest.
my future kind of counts on it and all.
Jessi,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you are working towards gaining control of your performance. In class it looked like you were loosening up with your next drawings in order to explore the project objectives. Hold onto that perfectionist nature, you'll need it.
*you have a few unfinished sentences up there... you can always save a blog post before publishing if you need to finish it up at a later time.
Marty
Marty
sorry, i made an aesthetic choice to put all the vocab words in line with bullet points even though the text should read in sentences. it's all one paragraph, just with breaks. obviously it was not a legible choice! today sure was a monday.
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