OUGD404 - Typeface Families - Design Principles.

In our context of practice session we were asked to identify the full typeface of all five fonts we chose for last session, to do this I used identifont and then laid out my sheets for the session.


The full typeface for Zapfino was the following: Zapfino, Linotype Zapfino one and Linotype Zapfino two. The family of three are all very similar, however the easiest to read was the standard 'Zapfino' font.

Next I found the full font family for Lucida Blackletter which consisted of only Lucida Blackletter and EF Lucida Blackletter T. The difference between them is so minimal I think it is only the point size scale. I researched and couldn't find anything else anywhere.

Here we have the typeface group of Orator, containign the fonts Orator, Orator 10, MN Orator (monotype), Orator (Mecanorma) and Orator 15. They are all extremely similar but they divide into two groups of serif and sans serif, the sans serif being easier to read.

Next it was the Gloucester family - Gloucester Extra Condensed Bold, Gloucester Condensed Bold, Gloucester Bold, Gloucester Old Style and Gloucester Extended Bold, the biggest family of type I had investigated, after really inspecting all of them I came to the conclusion that Gloucester Extra Condensed Bold was the easiest to read and work with.

The last type family I needed to investigate was the Caslon group - Caslon 3, Adobe Caslon, ITC Caslon 224, ITC Caslon 224 Black, ITC Caslon 224 Black Italic, Caslon 540, Caslon Black, Adobe Caslon Bold, Caslon Bold, Caslon Classico, Caslon Graphique, EF Caslon Graphique, ITC Caslon No. 224 Caslon Old Face and Williams Caslon Text. A massive family of different typefaces all designed by William Caslon in the same style. The most readable out of all of the fonts above was the Adobe Caslon due to the thin but flowing scales of the letters.