What I noticed about traces + fonts for words

Yilun Yu
Communication Design Fundamentals F17
1 min readSep 20, 2017

Some traces are serif and some are sans serif. Some (the ones with serif), have different g’s, like the ones written here. Some have different looking a’s with a ‘hat’ on top. Some characters have skinnier strokes in some places and wider strokes in others. Other characters have uniform width strokes. I particularly liked the second one because of the contrast between the skinny part and the wide part. The ‘g’ and ‘a’ characters in the fourth one have almost perfect circles. I also feel that space within the second word in the fourth design is too far apart.

typefaces for traditional:

  1. Times New Roman: reminds me of old books, professional documents, bounties. serif makes it look traditional as well.
  2. Apple Chancery: cursive typefaces reminds me of traditional because old writings use it. This one is not super cursive but is legible. Looks like something I would find in Captain Cook’s diary.
  3. Comic sans: This is the opposite of traditional. It is designed for children and looks playful.
  4. Charlemagne Std Bold: This looks traditional because all letters are capitalized. The serifs are extremely accentuated.
  5. Ayuthaya: The last one is traditional and not traditional. It looks like the typeface used Linux terminals. It reminds me of the days when hackers programmed in black and white command line interfaces instead of today’s graphical user interface. Today this typeface is long gone from personal computers, so it might come off as traditional or old. However, back in the day

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