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After catching a redeye flight, and arriving at JFK at 6 a.m. one would think it would be tiring to hear a 2 hour lecture on the history of type in a warm and dark room. But it was inspiring to hear what Sara noticed from the various stages of letterforms. For example the differences in stresses between lining numbers, capitals and lowercase. I thought that the stresses would be similar, but they are carefully different. And, few typeset spans can equal the beauty of the original half uncials designed in 500 a.d. … And there’s even such a thing as a well executed, insightful, and beautiful powerpoint. The instructor proved it. Did you know that the first lower-case sans-serif  font was made as recently as 1835?

Here’s one of the handouts:

We mainly worked on our initial font creations. Mine is inspired by an old water meter near my house. See below.

Apologies for the picture quality. I purposely left my camera at home and am using a small point and shoot.