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Type Style Finder
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Type Style Finder

by Timothy Samara
January 2006
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
8h 51m
English
Rockport Publishers
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Most typefaces that appear hand-drawn with a brush, pen, or rough tools
will convey the sense of intuition, especially if the characters are italic and
have the uneven, unrefined qualities of such tools. The character propor-
tions in such faces tend not to be uniform, creating a syncopated, unstudied
rhythm in setting that makes them feel undesigned—as though they were
laid down without planning. The gestural freedom within the strokes of
faces that appear hand-drawn—in which the terminals of characters are
extended, similar to those in scripts or swashes—further contributes to
the intuitive feeling of ...
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