Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

An Exercise and Method

I recommend you go to the web sites of the font vendors listed in Appendix B of this book. If they provide a printed catalog, request it. Spend a few minutes looking carefully at many faces on the web site or in the catalog and try to place each one into one of the general categories of type. Once you have found its basic place (many will not fit neatly into a category —that’s okay, just get as close as possible), then make some judgments. Does it have distinctive features or is it invisible? Does it wear red cowboy boots or a gray suit? Does the face have fine, delicate features that might not hold up through a fax machine, a copier, or on textured or cheap paper? Or does it have sturdy features that can go through the ...