Typography Task 1 / Exercise 1 & 2
03/04/23 - 14/05/23, Week 1 - Week 6 Ng Zheng Kai/ 0359424 Bachelor of Design in Creative Media (HONS) Typography GCD60104 Task 1: Exercise 1 & 2 LECTURES Week 1 We were introduced to simple typeface in week 1, along with the assignment was briefed where we were tasked with creating typeface based on the letters. Introduction to Typography Font : The individual font or weight within the typeface. Typeface : The entire family of fonts/weights that share similar characteristics/styles. Typography: Development and Timeline -Initially writing meant scratching into a wet clay with sharpened stick or carving into stone with chisel. -The Greeks changed the direction of writing, wrote right to left. The Greek developed a style of writing called "boustrophedon" which meant the lines of text read alternately right to left and left to right -Etruscan carvers working in marble painted letterforms before inscribing them. They drew it out with paint brush and developed the strokes ba