Week 4

 

Pointed Serif

Vertical Stress

Biased Stress

Open Bowl

Extended Apex

Hollowed Apex

Hollowed Vertex

Spur

Sheared Terminal

Acute Terminal

I found 10 different typefaces to identify each element.

Week 3: Early Letterform

 For this project, I chose the greek letter Xi. 

In ancient and in modern greek, this letter represents the sound [ks]. It is the 14th letter of the greek alphabet, and has a numerical value of 60. Csi/Xi originates from the Phoenician language sāmek, which translates to fish. The uppercase letter (Ξ) is used to represent various particles in physics as well as mathematics, while the lowercase letter (ξ) is used as a symbol for mass and astronomical functions.

WEEK 2: Alignment Project

I found this assignment quite confusing and illustrator was giving me lots of difficulty as well, but I managed to come up with something at the end. My favorite was align center, as I really like the way the passage looks with the divider.