{"id":12524,"date":"2021-03-03T23:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T04:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2021-03-03T23:10:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T04:10:58","slug":"intro-to-typography-a-big-bunch-of-fancy-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/2021\/03\/03\/intro-to-typography-a-big-bunch-of-fancy-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Typography &#8211; A Big Bunch of Fancy Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How many pieces can you cut from a single letter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Way more than I would have guessed. Or wanted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Typedia did a much more significant job of attempting to explain every nook and cranny of what makes up typefaces than the anatomy document&#8211; but even with both of them to use, I&#8217;m still rather perplexed. It almost seems like there are two or three neat little terms to describe *<em>almost*\u00a0<\/em>the same structure. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s a lack of an artistic eye or that I looked into them at 11:00 pm on a Wednesday night, but a lot of it simply looks like repetition. There are acute differences&#8211; little features that set them apart, I can tell.<\/p>\n<p>But right at first glance, I don&#8217;t see it. It might take some more prolonged study to get past the counters, eyes, ascenders, descenders, baselines, and the other basic margins.<\/p>\n<p>However, there was one observation I was able to take away&#8211; a significant number of these structures are prominent in decoration rather than functionality, such as serifs, ears, and links. Even without them, the letters remain legible&#8211; decipherable&#8211; to the human eye. The typeface is less attractive and creative if it&#8217;s cut down to its most clean and simplistic parts (albeit not necessarily a bad thing), without the sparkles and glitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many pieces can you cut from a single letter? Way more than I would have guessed. Or wanted. Typedia did a much more significant job of attempting to explain every nook and cranny of what makes up typefaces than&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/2021\/03\/03\/intro-to-typography-a-big-bunch-of-fancy-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03-classic-typefaces-anatomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12531,"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kscgd.com\/2021spring\/gdp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}