History of the ‘Times’ Font

• “In 1931, The Times of London commissioned a new type design for the body copy of the paper. The design process was supervised by Stanley Morison. Times is actually a modernised version of the older typeface “Plantin”, which Morison was instructed to use as the main basis for his…

Project Three | Gill Sans

A research on the typeface

Grill Sans

Designer: Eric Gill

Release Year: 1928–31, 2005

Typographic Voice Exercise

Above, the elongated, Medieval-like seriff adds a certain level of age to the font. With this ‘aged’ feel, the font, and…

[Project 3] Typographic Voice Exercise

Exercise #2: Typographic Voice

[Project 3] Checkpoint 2/8

Baskerville Research

Name: Baskerville

Name of Designer: John Baskerville

Year It Was Designed: 1754

Research on Typeface (Gill Sans)

Gill Sans was created by Eric Gill (1882–1940), who was an artist from the U.K who specialized in various disciplines including wood-engraving, sculptures, and calligraphy. In the middle of his career, he got really into type design and created Gill Sans in 1928.

[Project 3] Tracing Exercise

Exercise #1: Tracing

Typeface tracing exercise for project 3.

Typographic Voice

Garamond

I feel like this is one of the better fonts out of the five that I have posted in terms…

Typographic Voice

Type Tracing Exercise

Project Three | Typeface Tracing

Exercise

Typeface Tracing

Typeface Tracing

Below is my typeface tracing