Sunday, November 15, 2015




ATL 

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (IATA: ATL, ICAO: KATL, FAA LID: ATL), known locally as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, or Hartsfield–Jackson, is located seven miles (11 km) south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, and by number of landings and take-offs from 2005 until 2013. Hartsfield–Jackson held its ranking as the world's busiest airport in 2012, both in passengers and number of flights, by accommodating 95 million passengers (more than 260,000 passengers daily) and 950,119 flights. Many of the nearly one million flights are domestic flights from within the United States, where Atlanta serves as a major hub for travel throughout the Southeastern United States. The airport has 207 domestic and international gates.
Hartsfield–Jackson is a focus city for low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines and is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines, Delta Connection, Delta Shuttle, and Delta Air Lines partner, ExpressJet. With nearly 1,000 flights a day, the Delta Air Lines hub is the world's largest airline hub. Delta Air Lines flew 59.01% of passengers from the airport in February 2011, AirTran flew 17.76%, and ExpressJet flew 13.86%. In addition to hosting Delta Air Lines corporate headquarters, Hartsfield–Jackson is also the home of Delta's Technical Operations Center, which is the airline's primary maintenance, repair and overhaul arm. The airport has international service to North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Asia and Africa. As an international gateway to the United States, Hartsfield–Jackson ranks sixth.
The airport is located mostly in unincorporated areas in Fulton and Clayton counties. However, the airport spills into the city limits of Atlanta, College Park and Hapeville. The airport's domestic terminal is served by MARTA's Red/Gold rail line.




City ATL
Urban ATL
Adventure ATL
Night life ATL
Hotlanta ATL
Oranges ATL
Summer ATL
Heat ATL
Water ATL
Aquarium ATL
Zoo ATL
Bubbly ATL
Amusement ATL
Nighttime ATL
Arts ATL
Outdoors ATL
Future ATL
Magic ATL
Civil ATL
History ATL
Creativity ATL
Energy ATL
Community ATL
Moving ATL
Changing ATL
Friendly ATL
Down to Earth ATL
Sporty ATL
Humid ATL
Massive ATL






Tuesday, November 3, 2015

-- What are small capitals? How are they different than something set in ALL CAPS?
small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height and weight as surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures. All Caps would not have the same height and weight.
-- Does your font have small caps? If not name a font that does.
Yes, ITC New Baskerville does. 
-- Ligatures? why are they used? when are they not used? what are common ligatures?
Two or more letters are joined together to form one glyph or character. 
They are used to represent specific sounds or words. They are not used in place of letters. Common ones:ff, fl, fi
-- Does your font have ligatures? If not name a font that does. 
Adobe Garamond has a lot of ligatures
-- Difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe?
Foot marks are usually straight and don't have curves and is used to mark time or feet. An apostrophe is used in punctuation to emphasize a phrase or word or to indicate a conversation. 
-- Difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
An inch mark (double prime) is also used to mark time or inches. A quote mark is used to quote what people are saying. 
-- Hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used.

The hyphen connects two things that are intimately related, usually words that function together as a single concept. The en dash connects things that are related to each other by distance of any range. The em allows an additional thought to be added within a sentence like (). Em dashes also substitute for something missing or can be used like bullet points. 

Sunday, October 18, 2015

ITC New Baskerville

ITC New Baskerville

-Serif
-Created by John Baskerville/  John Quaranda
-Other fonts include EF Baskerville Baskerville (BT) Baskerville Caps Baskerville Classico Baskerville No.2 ITC New Baskerville ITC New Baskerville (EF)
-Designed in 1757
-Classified as a transitional typeface
-Family members- Italic, Italic Oldstyle Figures, Bold, Bold Small Caps & Oldstyle Figures, Bold Italics, and Bold Italic Oldstyle Figures

Old style typefaces were originally created between the late 15th and mid-18th centuries, these early roman types are characterized by curved strokes whose axis inclines to the left, and little contrast between thick and thins. Their serifs are almost always bracketed while the head serifs are often angled. The lowercase “e” in some versions features a diagonal cross stroke. Examples of this type is ITC Berkely Oldstyle, ITC Legacy Serif, and Sabon Next.





Transitional Type
John Baskerville was the one who established this style in the mid 18th century. These typefaces represent the transition between old style and neoclassical designs, to incorporate some characteristics of each. The strokes normally have a vertical stress. The weight contrast is more pronounced than in old style designs. Serifs are still bracketed and head serifs are oblique. Examples of this are Baskerville, Perpetua, and ITC Charter.


Modern Type
.Consists of high and abrupt contrast between thick and thin strokes, abrupt (unbracketed) hairline (thin) serifs, vertical axis, horizontal stress, and small apertures. Examples include didot, ambroise, and moderno FB.


Slab Serif
Slab serif is also sometimes called Egyptian/antique. The classification began in the mid-nineteenth century during the Industrial Revolution. It is characterized by serifs that are similar in weight to the character stroke, in contrast to other serif faces where the serif is a minor finishing flourish. Additionally there is typically little or no contrast in stroke width, and serifs are most often unbracketed. This included American Typewriter, Archer, and Nilland.



Sans Serif
A Sans Serif typeface is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. This comes from the French word sans, meaning "without" and "serif" from the Dutch word schreef meaning "line". So, it is a type face without line. Sans-serif fonts tend to have less line width variation than serif fonts. They are often used for headlines in print rather than for body text. Sans-serif fonts have become the most popular for display of text on computer screens. This includes Franklin Gothic, Helvetica, and Futura. 




Stroke Weight: describes the thickness of a line that helps make up a character in a typeface
Axis: an imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes 
Small Caps: are when uppercase characters are set at the same height and weight as surrounding lowercase letters
Lining Figures: In typography, numbers are commonly referred to as figures or numerals. Lining figures are one of the two styles of figures, with the other being oldstyle.
Non-aligning figures- 
Ligatures-two or more figures or letters are joined as a single figure
Lining Figures- figures with even height, some can be smaller and lighter than uppercase
Non-aligning figures- oldstyle figures which vary in height and weight. may sit on the baseline, or go below the baseline
Type measurement- Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting. Traditionally they differ from metric units. Even though the units used are all very small, across a line of print they add up quickly. Usually use picas and points (1 inch = 6 picas = 72 points)







Sunday, October 4, 2015



Here is my first draft of the flyer. My font is called "Octobur". 







Sunday, September 27, 2015







Here is my full font. I would describe it as bubbly because the letters look round and full almost if someone blew them up like a balloon. I would also use futuristic to describe them because they are not very modern or classic. I also think they are also playful because I could not see them being used for something serious. My inspiration was to do something thicker than usual fonts because I think I could be more playful. Like children's building blocks.
Ex:

Here are image examples of those words:

Bubbly

Futuristic

Playful

FUTURA

I chose Futura because it is one of my favorite fonts to use, yet I really don’t know much about it. It is considered a geometric sans-serfic typeface. It was designed in 1927 by a man named Paul Renner. The design was based on geometric shapes. It is considered to be a Bauhaus styled design. The strokes are made up of near ever weight and low contrast. Different versions of this were released in 1930. The success of this font allowed new geometric sans-serif typefaces to take over. It has been used in many logos.