Legibility & Readability

Type & Character

'Type is speech made visible'

One of the key shifts within the type time line that happened within industrialisation, is that people began to read & therefore became educated. Through process of industrialisation revolution there was a need to be able to read as before this there was storytellers as it was an oral tradition which had characters as they made the words come alive with accents.

Top Left Typeface: Make the relation to military, bold, stenciled, no refinement - spraying on to side of an oil can.

All elegant, script, simple but personally I say bottom left due to exaggeration & over the top.

Bottom: Decourate & celebratory it is more fluent and easier to ice to match the cake. 

Trainers: This connotes speed, dynamic & movement

Wellies: Floral, feminine, decourate, girly, childish, playful

Which one would be put on this? 2nd One: Ammo Case, Miltary 

The image reinforces what your thinking.  

Timberlands (2nd one): Khaki colour, bold.  

Heels: None of these seem very appropriate for the shoes.

Vocabulary

Font

Typeface

Font Family

Weight

Stroke

Uppercase/Lowercase

Tracking

Kerning

Sans/ Serif

Script

Blackletter

Display

Monotype

Symbol

Type Face

A collection (All weights together, light, bold, italic) of characters, letter, numbers, symbols & punctuationa etc... which have the same distinct design.

Font (Contains weights differently)

The physical means used to create a typeface be it computer code, lithographic film, metal or wood.    

Difference between arial & helvetical when you have one sentence? 

A Full stop arial has a round sull stop and helvetica has a square one. 

Western font, Oxidised

Alpha Numerics

Glyphs: not letters/other

Letterform: Letters    

Gothic: Striped Down Sans Serif Font

Roman: Serif Fonts (Stone)

Block: Block fonts Big (Print) Headlines, Heavy Stroke

Script: Handwritten fluid style. Sweeping stroke, sometimes by a quill. 

We found it easier to categories these than the Bold, Italic etc... But to bold & italic are questionable as we was comparing it against other fonts rather than others form the same family. Which might give us the incorrect information.

Ledgibility & Readablity   

Ledgibility & Reabablity hinge of our understanding of typeface anatomy.

Leading: The size of the lead block between letters in a word when printing.

The most important element in typography is the counter as it is the negative space in a letter form.

We all read counters of a letter form

 

We dont read what we see, we read the space around it. 

Some people also find roman bodycopy easier to read due to the serifs articulating around the font.

Legibility: Is the degree to which glyphs ( Individual Characters) in text are understandable based on appearance.

Readability: Is the ease in which text can be understood. It is influenced by the line length, primary & secondary leading, justification, type style, leading & kerning.       

Tracking: Pull it apart, spread it out.

Kerning: Pulls it together, don't allow kerning with bodycopy.  

The rule of the thumb is no more than 5 fonts but you can harmonise them by suing other from the family of the typeface.

Readability (Task)

Readability is the ease of which a text is understood. It is influenced by the line length, primary & secondary leading, justification, type style, leading & kerning.

Here is the task we have been set to fine the most readable font out of our chosen 5.

Braggadocio 12pt

Braggadocio 24pt

Braggadocio 36pt

Braggadocio 72pt

This type family is a very hard font to read at the most of times so I wouldn't choose it for something as a body copy or a block of text i would use it for a head line maybe a strap line. I believe the readability starts to come through at 36pt but obviously more readable at 72pt.

Marker Felt Thin 12pt

Marker Felt Thin 24pt

Marker Felt Thin 36pt

Marker Felt Thin 72pt

Marker Felt Wide 12pt

Marker Felt Wide 24pt

Marker Felt Wide 36pt

Marker Felt Wide 72pt

I believe that the marker felt wide is more readable in the wide style rather than thin as the font starts to become more readable at 36pt and more clearer to the reader eye in the wide font rather than the thin.

American Typewriter Regular 12pt

American Typewriter Regular 24pt

American Typewriter Regular 36pt

American Typewriter Regular 72pt

The font becomes most legible at 36pt within the regular typeface now i am going to explore all the other fonts within the family style.

American Typewriter Light Condensed 36pt

American Typewriter Condensed 36pt

American Typewriter Bold Condensed 36pt

American Typewriter Light 36pt

American Typewriter Bold 36pt

I believe the font within the typeface family that's the most readable is the Regular at 36pt. Although i think if there was a lot of text then this size would become very less readable and 72pt would be the most readable.

Rockwell Extra Bold 12pt

Rockwell Extra Bold 24pt

Rockwell Extra Bold 36pt

Rockwell Extra Bold 72pt

Rockwell 12pt

Rockwell 24pt

Rockwell 36pt

Rockwell 72pt

Rockwell seems to be more readable that Rockwell Extra Bold which i had as one of my original fonts. The point size is more readable starting from 36pt as i think that a block of text would be just readable.

Bauhaus 93 12pt

Bauhaus 93 24pt

Bauhaus 93 36pt

Bauhaus 93 48pt

Bauhaus 93 72pt

I decided to do a next level between 36pt and 72pt as i do believe this font is not legible at 36pt to me as it is just a little bit bigger at 48pt. I believe this is due to its thick and flowing style.

Overall I believe that the Rockwell 48pt is the most readable now after the exploration of all 5 all my fonts I wouldn't necessarily use for a body copy as I used quite elaborate fonts. This is due to Rockwell having serifs and using a more cleaner finish to the font unlike the other typefaces.