AMERICAN TYPEWRITER FONT ARTWORK MANUAL
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These faces originated in monospaced format with fixed-width, meaning that every character takes up exactly the same amount of horizontal space. *a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif, antique or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs Typewriter slab serif typefaces are named for their use in strike-on typewriting. The font will be applied to a forthcoming suite of drawings and paintings with a working title: вЂњLandscapes of BetrayalвЂќ The first example was posted online on December 9th 2017, using Facebook as a sounding board.ДЄfter a day eliciting no responses, I was pleased that viewers began to engage with this visual puzzleвЂ¦ X is created in the same way, but rotated 45 degrees on the character line. This created four right-angled triangles pointing to a central point on the mean line and fading out to the edges of a square. Consequently, I decided to use the negative space around the point where the t crossbar cuts across the stem. My motivation is to add another element to my visual armoury. My application would be through means transmitted by pen, pencil and brush. But this is a вЂcodeвЂ™ designed by an artist, a painter whose trade specialises in blending, grazing across and nuancing surfaces. They run counter to the central concept of legibility through contrast and solidity. Fading effects pose a difficulty on a font. If I introduced such a fade-out I could see a way of identifying t and x. An exclamation mark? Add a positive вЂcapвЂ™, fading out from the top line.

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If terminals could be applied, I could combine a dot to identify j and this could also give me i and a full stop. They also gave me r with its finial, referred to endearingly as an вЂearвЂ™. to differentiate ascenders and descenders. Terminals, or finials are a visually satisfying characteristic of American Typewriter, those comma-like flourishes at the ends of some letters. However, to separate b d p and q from each other, I would need to provide further information some element of вЂpositivityвЂ™. Open counters could indicate the presence of: c h k m n s u v w y Some of these gave a particularly striking arrowhead pointing in different directions.

It is still, to me, the most beautiful and evocative of fonts even though in its current derivation, it is no longer a slab serif.*Д®nclosed voids or closed counters provide specific identities for the following lower case letters: a e g o

AMERICAN TYPEWRITER FONT ARTWORK MANUAL

Why choose this? I am of an age when my educational theses, my mailed letters and later the scripts and running schedules I worked to professionally, were all typed either by manual or electronic mechanical typewriters. I wanted to create a font using American typewriter bold as a foundation. Emphasis on these empty spaces would produce latent characters hidden in clear sight, a notion close to any illusionistвЂ™s heart. The importance of вЂnegative spaceвЂ™ -the shapes of the gaps or voids created between two or more corporeal elements, is one of the fundamental principles of abstract art and design. My idea was to create my own variation based on the shapes of the negative spaces to create characters by inference. A set of rules and templates to transfer shapes on to A4 sheets would be of little use to me. Besides,В I wanted flexibility of scale so that I could apply a system to my larger scale paintings. I trawled the internet, contemplating a purchase, but incomplete boxes from USA cost upward of ВЈ60 as they are now considered collectable.

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