The Letter Fountain reading started out with learning about Small Capitals. Small Capitals is a
smaller version of capital letters, not reduced capitals. They are wider and make a block of text look
less busy. The reading also informed me and Ligatures and logotypes which are combinations of
characters and a less clearly visible combinations of characters like the “&” symbol. The reading was
also informative on lowercase lettering and how there was none in Roman times and spacing between
letters and how what you measure isn’t what you see. Type was influenced by Roman lettering, other
historical attributes, and even punk and graffiti. This is where type became a little less perfect and a
little more unclean. The reading talked about many different type and graphic designers and their
process, techniques, and business structure. The reading gave an overview of the progress of type
design after the introduction of the computer and how much the industry is expanding worldwide.
There is not country-related styles, type is inspired by everything around the designers surroundings
and taken from so many different materials and inspiration.
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