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What is a Font Flag? What is a Font Specimen Sheet?
Monday, March 17, 2008
Do you know what a font flag or font specimen sheet is? Here are the answers as well as an example made by myself for typography class at university.
What is a Font Flag?
A font flag is a poster – a visual ‘sell’ – presentation of the style, feel, mood and aesthetic sense of a particular font. It deals with the emotive, pictorial, poetic or pragmatic sense of the font. It may recall the sense of history, the classification group, notable or famous uses. It is about appeal – looking good.
What is a font specimen sheet?
A font specimen sheet is about measurement specifics, display of the font – all characters and expressions, at differing point sizes, paragraph setting, leaded or tracked. Upper Case and Lower Case, title box, formal identification of the font - its name, classification, designer/typographer, the foundry – and a demonstrated showing of ‘font family’ characteristics – weights/shade in print.
My take on making a font flag and specimen sheet
For typography class at University we could choose any typeface we wished and then we had to make up a font flag and a font specimen sheet, here is the result, as well as a title page.
I chose Bodoni because it is so unique and because I wanted the challenge of working in an Didone (Modern) font, something I have never done before.
I made the background in Photoshop from about 8 different layers, then merged them and imported into Illustrator. The rest was done in Illustrator. You may notice that the Fibonnaci Sequence or golden mean has been the inspiration for these designs.
The characteristics of a Didone (Modern) type face.
Thick vertical strokes.
Thin horizontal strokes.
Fine hairlines.
Straight serifs.
Extreme contrast between the thick and thin stokes.
Curved letters balanced and slightly compressed.
The angle of stress is vertical.
Prints best on a smooth matt finish, white paper with black ink.
A thing worth noting on most digital Bodini fonts is that they suffer from a particular kind of legibility degradation known as “dazzle” caused by the alternating thick and thin strokes, particularly from the thin strokes being very thin at small point sizes.
What is a Font Flag?
A font flag is a poster – a visual ‘sell’ – presentation of the style, feel, mood and aesthetic sense of a particular font. It deals with the emotive, pictorial, poetic or pragmatic sense of the font. It may recall the sense of history, the classification group, notable or famous uses. It is about appeal – looking good.
What is a font specimen sheet?
A font specimen sheet is about measurement specifics, display of the font – all characters and expressions, at differing point sizes, paragraph setting, leaded or tracked. Upper Case and Lower Case, title box, formal identification of the font - its name, classification, designer/typographer, the foundry – and a demonstrated showing of ‘font family’ characteristics – weights/shade in print.
My take on making a font flag and specimen sheet
For typography class at University we could choose any typeface we wished and then we had to make up a font flag and a font specimen sheet, here is the result, as well as a title page.
I chose Bodoni because it is so unique and because I wanted the challenge of working in an Didone (Modern) font, something I have never done before.
I made the background in Photoshop from about 8 different layers, then merged them and imported into Illustrator. The rest was done in Illustrator. You may notice that the Fibonnaci Sequence or golden mean has been the inspiration for these designs.
The characteristics of a Didone (Modern) type face.
Thick vertical strokes.
Thin horizontal strokes.
Fine hairlines.
Straight serifs.
Extreme contrast between the thick and thin stokes.
Curved letters balanced and slightly compressed.
The angle of stress is vertical.
Prints best on a smooth matt finish, white paper with black ink.
A thing worth noting on most digital Bodini fonts is that they suffer from a particular kind of legibility degradation known as “dazzle” caused by the alternating thick and thin strokes, particularly from the thin strokes being very thin at small point sizes.
Feedback / Suggestions / Constructive Criticism is appreciated. I would love to hear your feedback.
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Senator Obama and Michelle attended Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church for twenty years. They were married by Rev. Wright and the Obama children were baptized by Rev. Wright and I believe the children must have heard the preacher also.
You must believe those recent videos of Rev. Jeremiah Wright are not the only video's of this egotistical man. He is not ashamed of his diatribes of pure racism against America, whites and Jews. He is retiring from the pulpit, but he will attend Trinity Church and I imagine, on occasion, he will preach a sermon for some extra pocket change.
Major Garrett of FNS, "asked Obama if he had ever heard Wright's preach
Racism" [March 15, 2008]; Obama said, "No, he had not heard Wright make racist remarks until five months ago when the media released the video tapes". [October 2007]
Obama said, "If I thought that [racism] was the repeated tenor of the church then I wouldn't feel comfortable, but frankly that has not been my experience at Trinity United Church of Christ." Obama said, "He is like an uncle to me he helped me to find Christ". Rev. Wright said, "Jesus Christ was a black man born into a rich white man's world".
Former White House press Secretary Ari Fleischer summed up the Obama's lame excuses to Major Garrett when Fleischer said Obama's statements "are nothing more than that of a shrewd politician."
Now all we need is an investigative reporter who can produce just one video during the twenty year span and prove Obama and Michelle heard their great preacher spew his venom and hatred of America, whites and Jews before October 2007.
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