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Balancing Type Design in Typography

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Balancing Type Design in Typography

The document contains multiple repetitions of a quote from Robert Bringhurst discussing how type design is an art mastered by few, but font editing software allows anyone to easily alter letter widths and shapes, despite the decades of study and skill required of professional type designers.

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Assignment #2

Training Your Eye

2.
a. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered
by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible
for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades
of study, years of inspiration and a rare concentration
of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

b. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered


by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible
for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades
of study, years of inspiration and a rare concentration
of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

c. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered


by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible
for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades
of study, years of inspiration and a rare concentration
of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35
d. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered
by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible
for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades
of study, years of inspiration and a rare concentration
of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

e. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered


by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible
for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades
of study, years of inspiration and a rare concentration
of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

f. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered


by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible
for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades
of study, years of inspiration and a rare concentration
of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35
3.
a. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible for anyone to
alter in a moment the widths and shapes of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years of inspiration
and a rare concentration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

a. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible for any-
one to alter in a moment the widths and shapes of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years
of inspiration and a rare concentration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

d. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible for anyone to
alter in a moment the widths and shapes of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years of inspiration
and a rare concentration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

d. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing software makes it possible for any-
one to alter in a moment the widths and shapes of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years
of inspiration and a rare concentration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

4.
a. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing soft-
ware makes it possible for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes of letters to
which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years of inspiration and a rare concen-
tration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

a. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing
software makes it possible for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years of inspiration
and a rare concentration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

d. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing soft-
ware makes it possible for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes of letters to
which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years of inspiration and a rare concen-
tration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

d. Type Design is an art practiced by few and mastered by fewer - but font-editing
software makes it possible for anyone to alter in a moment the widths and shapes
of letters to which an artist may have devoted decades of study, years of inspiration
and a rare concentration of skill. - Robert Bringhurst page 35

5.
I tend to gravitate towards to the 2 to 3 points leading typesetting. It seems to be a good middle ground.
Not too scrounched up and not too spread apart.

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