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Mastering TypographyMastering Typography

Typography is a rather obscure field, which is quite odd because typography is in everything you read. As such, it’s very important for a graphic designer to know everything there is to know about typography and preferably also the history and anatomy of typefaces. Bad typography is usually only consciously noticeable by type geeks (like me), however even someone who knows absolutely nothing about typography will find text with bad typography harder to read. In this article you will learn some basic principles and features to advance your typography.
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Before we have a look at the features to improve your typography we have to select the right software. A few features which will be discussed in this article can be used pretty much regardless of the software but for most things you have to use genuine design software, so a program like Microsoft Word won’t suffice. You can achiev

History of Roman typefacesHistory of Roman typefaces
Typefaces are our instruments to construct words and sentences. Of course this very article couldn’t be written without type other than writing by hand and scanning it in, but I wouldn’t know how to save the file or how to access the website to upload it to if I had no access to typefaces. Of course I don’t have to say where type can be found; it’s absolutely everywhere. However, most people don’t consider where typefaces come from. Most of my life and even the first 5 years or so of my design career I was absolutely ignorant of where typefaces came from. I mean, they were just "there" on the computer and I never considered someone actually had to make typefaces for us to use—letter by letter. In this article I will discuss the history of Roman typefaces; how it progressed during the ages, how each style can be recognized and how to select typefaces consciously and logically r

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Typography Series - 03 - Numeral setsby *MartinSilvertant

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Typography Series - 03 - Numeral sets
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The ultimate guide to the anatomy of type. I believe all the basic anatomy of typography is included. I hope you like it, and feel free to share.

Download the zip file including the file as a 2000px wide jpg and an .ai vector file so you can print the poster as big as you want.

Update I accidentally put numerator twice. All files are fixed now..
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Typography Series - 01 - Type Anatomy
Typography Series - 02 - Ligatures
Typography Series - 03 - Numeral sets

~dawnland Nov 16, 2012 Professional General Artist

Great!
I am not very good at this. Most of my fonts are more experimental thou but it's always good to know the basic anatomy!

*MartinSilvertant Nov 17, 2012 Professional General Artist

Thanks! I'm not the greatest at numerals myself. I guess it might come with practice but so far I haven't done many numerals.

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