Today's CoP Lecture was all about Typography. I was told about the history of Typography and how it evolved, and I also learnt that there are different "type families". These include Old Style, Tradtional, Modern, Humanist, Swiss Modern/Bauhaus and Contemporary.
I'm not quite sure what to think of today's lecture. I was bored to death by a good percentage of the talk (sorry), but then again there were parts of it that I found really interesting. For instance, Helvetica is a font that was developed in 1957 by a man called Max Meidinger and that the aim of the design was to create a neutral typeface with great clarity and no meaning its form, and because of this is could be used on a wider variety of signage. Microsoft released "Arial" 25 years later (the maximum time that a design is protected by intellectual property before it lapses), "ripping off" Meidinger's design.
I also never realised that different fonts have different meanings and history behind them (trying not to sound too ignorant). I knew that different typefaces could be used for different purposes, and some were more appropriate for some jobs than others, but didn't realise they had meaning.
I think it might be nice to read a bit more into typography, because I think it has the potential to be quite interesting to me, especially now I have learnt it's more that just letters presented differently. I still don't know a great deal, but I do know to stay clear of Comic Sans.
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