01 Arm Beak Ear Shoulder

Investigate the meaning of the

following type anatomy terms. Use Aperture Bowl Eye Spine
shading to highlight and label each
Arc Cap Height Flag Stem
term on the outlined text below.
Ascender Counter Foot Tail
Ascender line Crotch Ligature Tittle
Axis Descender Loop Vertex
Baseline Descender line Serif X-height (line)

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Research into the following type classi cations. Print out an Most typefaces can be classi ed into one of four basic groups: Serifs, Sans Serif, Script and decorative styles. Over the years, typographers
example of a typeface that represents each classi cation, place have devised various systems to de nitively categorize typefaces. Additional classi cations you might want to explore: Geometric Sans
your example in the boxes below (90mm x 50mm) Serif + Pixel Type + Monospace + Stencil + Gra tti + Calligraphic + Dingbats + Cursive + Modular + Transitional + Brish + Clarendon

Old Style (humanist) Slab Serif Grotesque

Blackletter Neoclassical / Didone Decorative

Research Starters: TypeFoundry.directory

Module resource list: tinyurl.com/s44uvybd
inking With Type by Ellen Lupton (book)
Type Tells Tales by Gail Anderson & Steven Heller(b o ok)
e Visual History of Type by Paul McNeil (book)
Web: fonts.com / fontsinuse.com / typeroom.eu
Use the typefoundry.directory website to connect with
the work of various type foundries operating around the
world. Use “Tile View” settings to see thumbnails of each
foundry webpage. Document all of your reading, research
and inspiration-hunting in your process books.

TYPE HYPE: Type Anatomy & Taxonomy Two fonts walk into the bar, but the barman says, “sorry folks, we don’t serve your type.”