Week 5 Lecture
In this lecture, Andy and Karen Ann talked about industrialisation of print. One thing that stood out to me in this lecture is that the fonts made long time ago needed grid lines to make shapes and to perfect each word. It was interesting to know how people made these letters using these techniques in order to make equal angles for the curves.
During the lecture, Andy mentioned a name which was Claude Garamond, an apprentice of Geoffroy Tory. I decided to do a little bit of Googling and this is what I found.
Claude Garamond is a French type designer, cutter and publisher. He is famous for being the first type designer and punch cutter. By doing this, he was able to influence many typographers, punch cutters and publishers to create and sell. This led to more and more types of fonts created by type designers hence he was one of the leading type designers of his time. His work allows printers to print easily due to the very clear harmony of design between capitals, lowercase and numbers and also how his individual characters can be easily distinguished from another. However, Garamond was not recognised for his work due to other type designer that frequently use and copy his work. But, he became famous after his death due to his wife selling his original artworks.
Willetts, B., 2019. How Claude Garamond Changed The Type Industry. [online] Medium. Available at: <https://medium.com/@brandywilletts/how-claude-garamond-changed-the-type-industry-d287200bef2f> [Accessed 28 May 2020].