Typeface Comparison

The five typefaces we had to look at were for the most part very similar and unless one looked hard enough would in fact say they were the same, but looking at them there were some key differences; like how one was sanserif and the ones that were serif had different types of serifs, also the differing thicknesses of the type, etc. I chose to look more closely at Baskerville and Helvetica, I much preferred Baskerville over Helvetica for a few reasons. Baskerville is a serif type and I just prefer serif typefaces to sanserif ones like Helvetica, they tend to be a bit more ornate with the different shapes and curves of the serifs unlike sanserif that just seem too plain. Baskerville is a thick and thin typeface meaning in some spots the type is thinner it resembles handwriting more so than Helvetica that is one uniform thickness. That’s not to say I don’t like Helvetica because I do like it in some contexts, every typeface has its use but compered to the other typefaces I just didn’t like it as much, one thing I did prefer about it though was that the “g” had a more modern look without so much swirling, that Baskerville’s had also the g was closed. Another thing was that there was more of a size distinction between the upper and lower case letters in Baskerville that I liked. Each Typeface is good and they each have a purpose that suits their styles.

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