Typography By Hand

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While I forget what the sans-serif font is, the serif font is Adobe Garamond. These two 'words' were the first assignment of my introductory Typography course, requiring me to replicate, without tracing, the two renderings seen above. A digitally refined version also exists with labels of the parts of the letterforms (ie- crossbar, serif, spine, stem, etc. etc.) As you can see, I measured out nearly all the pertinent details, including the letter width and spacing distance between the letters. However, I was less mechanical with the actual curves of the shapes, since that seemed to best preserve any humanism left within the design of the fonts. More of the same to follow in more volume. Joy.