Typography Reading – Chapter 4:
153, 164-168. Chapter 6: 223, 226-236.
Chapter 4 deals with the
materiality of type. It talks about the
tools and media that typographers use and how different materials relate to the
meaning of the type.
Four typesetting
revolutions
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Hand typesetting: metal and wood
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Machine typesetting: Hot type
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Phototypesetting: Cold Type
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Digital typesetting: Room-temperature type
Stone to Pixel Life of Trajan
Chapter 6 goes over measuring systems of type and the
classification and categorization of type.
Production systems influence what you can make.
Classification systems lay out terms and categories in order
to communicate and talk about type in an organized way.
Measurement systems have kept consistent from the change of the
physical into the digital world, because typographers were familiar with it,
and it worked.
Type measure:
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Small type was 2-8 pt
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Body text was 9-14 or 15 pt
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Larger fonts were 16-28 pt
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Headlines were 36-96 pt
They only made certain sizes because to make every size of a
typeface would have taken way too much time and space.
Wood type was used to make larger typefaces.
