Sans-serif Essays

  • Futura Essay

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    world – the first type to be used on the moon. The origin of this font can be traced back to the 1920’s when a German typeface designer, Paul Renner, created it. A German professor of the Bauhaus school, Jakob Erbar created the first geometric sans-serif typeface. It was designed for pure functionality, which was based on a circle, square and triangle. After this, Renner decided to improve on the typeface and improved it to be the font we know today. Renner was born in 1878, and grew up in Wernigerode

  • Introduction to Typography

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    Introduction to Typography Typography is all around us and we use it everyday to aid us in communication. It is essential to know the basics about typography and the different types of typography before it is discussed in the terms of ‘typography in society’. The basics of typography are: the different type families, and some technical terms which are imperative when discussing the technical and symbolic aspects of typefaces and letter forms. Type Families Roman Roman is the standard style

  • Avenir Typeface: The Typeface Of The Future

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    He tried to, “make use of the experience and stylistic developments of the 20th century in order to work out an independent alphabet meeting modern typographical needs”("Type Gallery – Avenir"). This typeface is described as a geometric sans-serif typeface with a human touch. It is not completely geometric because it has thicker vertical strokes than its horizontal counterparts, as well as shortened accender’s. The x-height is also taller than other typefaces, which some consider to be a

  • The Techniques of the Advertisers Used to Promote Birds Eye Potato Waffles

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    The Techniques of the Advertisers Used to Promote Birds Eye Potato Waffles Within this assignment I will analyse the different techniques, which Birds Eye have used to promote their product, Potato Waffles. In order to do this I will explore the techniques, which the advertisers have used in order to achieve this. It is important to place this discussion into context. The organisation, which will be examined, is Birds Eye. Birds Eye are a famous frozen-food manufacturer, they have been established

  • Advertisement Coursework - Volkswagen Golf

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    Missing Image/Advertisement Image This advertisement has been created to promote the Volkswagen Golf Gt to an environmentally friendly audience. It achieves this by using the powerful juxtaposition of a peaceful image contrasting with a dark and violent scene. To further this contrast, the advertiser has placed the car directly in the center. This implies there are two very different personalities to the car. Effectively personifying the car. Upon further examination of the image, we see varied

  • Design Principles of Printmaking

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    Design Principles Printmaking is an art or medium that has grown popularity within the last century. It has many forms with different complexities but all forms are based on the same principle, which is to transfer an image from a matrix to a transferring base. There are many kinds of printmaking techniques. Among them are (1) monoprint, which occupies a space between painting and graphic arts; (2) embossing, where solid objects are laid on a damp paper and put through the press; (3) relief or

  • Evaluation of Persuasion Techniques in an Advertisement

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    Evaluation of Persuasion Techniques in an Advertisement As it is known today, advertisements are part of our everyday life. Mostly advertisements are used to sell to consumers by persuading and reaching out to us, or to inform us of the choices we have as consumers. They often strengthen our desire for things by appealing to the compulsive aspects of our psyche. However, advertisements that advertise charities often try to appeal to the compassionate aspects of our psyche, in order to

  • Times New Roman Analysis Essay

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    Overview Times New Roman (TNR) is a serif typeface commissioned by the newspaper The Times in 1931 and created by Victor Lardent, an artist from the advertising department of the newspaper. The typeface was supervised by Stanley Morison, who adopted an older typeface named Plantin as the basis, but ‘made revisions for legibility and economy of space’(). Morrison also intended it to be read and not seen, consequently, without doubt, his intention has been realized. Analysis • Legibility Counters:

  • An Insider’s Guide to Wedding Invites

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    Guidelines in Creating the Perfect Wedding Invitations A wedding invitation, like an entrée (the starter) served before the main dish in a three-course meal, gives your guests’ their first glimpse of your wedding style. Yes, a wedding invitation helps set the tone of the event, giving your guests an idea of what to expect on your big day. With the right wedding invitation, you can create a good first impression on your guests, thereby building anticipation leading up to your special day. This is

  • History Of The Copperplate Typeface

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    The Copperplate typeface is a typeface that all designers in the industry should learn and know about. At first glance the Copperplate typeface seems very common but if you look at it in depth you can see its many interesting characteristics. Back in the day this typeface was not so used as it is today, now we can see it representing many businesses and people are using it more and more. For various reasons some people like or dislike the Copperplate typeface. With more detailed information about

  • Stone Serif Essay

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    Stone Serif, created by Sumner Stone, is a typeface with an unmatched ability to be used on a variety of outputs, from small sizes on economical, everyday printers, to imagesetters used for high quality printing of glossy magazines or newsletters. This typeface, which a part of a larger type family, or a “super family,” is classified as a serif typeface. Prior to its creation in 1987 at Adobe Systems, personal computers were slowly, but surely, becoming more mainstream. With this booming invention

  • Garamond Coupt

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    This font is an old style serif typeface. The Garamond font is not that much different then, Times New Roman, Comic Sans or Central Gothic. It is simply a 10 point font that is rendered on a 12 point font line. This font has been appeared in a list of interesting fonts. There is many different variations of this font Garamond

  • Baskerville Research Paper

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    Type description Baskerville is a transitional serif typeface (according to the ATypl classification system) created by John Baskerville. As the name implies, a transitional typeface is a typeface that transitions from the Old style typeface to the newer, modern typeface. The characteristics of a transitional typeface are apparent in Baskerville. These characteristics are the apparent contrast between thin and thick strokes, vertical stress in rounded strokes, ascenders matching cap-height, numerals

  • La Vitesse, Une Erreur?

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    vitesse. » Expliquez voire discuter cette idée en vous servant d’exemples précis. Nous sommes au siècle de la vitesse, le monde grouille, fourmille, s’agite pour concurrencer, moderniser, produire…Nous sommes entraînés dans une spirale qui s’accélère sans cesse. En essayant d’aller toujours plus vite, de gagner toujours plus de temps, ne faisons-nous pas le contraire, ne perdons-nous pas l’essentiel de la vie en essayant d’aller toujours plus vite? Tout d’abord examinons la vitesse dans les transports

  • Courtly Love and Rondeau Form

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    out as A-B-a-A-a-b-A-B. For example, in Le souvenir de vous me tue, there are two melodies, A and B. Then, there are several sets of verses of poem; Le souvenir de vous me tue, Mon seul bien, quant je ne vous voy, Car je vous jure sus ma foy Que sans vous ma joye est perdue. Quant v... ... middle of paper ... ...fore the last repetition, so that the song can go back to the repetition smoothly. After all, Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye and Le souvenir de vous me tue are the songs of the courtly

  • Social Networking: The Death of Privacy?

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    Social networks have become an increasingly popular way for people to communicate over the last decade. Whether it is through a wall post, a picture, a video, or a link, users are able to share stories and details about their lives through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and YouTube. Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student who hacked the university’s network to obtain photos and information about other students on campus, created Facebook in 2004. Today, Facebook has more than one

  • Lao Tzu

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    truth and freedom. He always encouraged those who followed him to observe and to seek to understand the laws of nature. Lao Tzu believed that one should develop intuition and build up personal power, which would then be used to lead life with love sans force. As he often contemplated the natural world, Lao Tzu felt that it was man and his doings that created an affliction on the otherwise flawless order of things. Thus he counseled his followers to turn away from the silliness of human pursuits

  • William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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    truth; illusion versus reality. In the play, Prince Hamlet is constantly having to differentiate amongst them. However, there is always an exception to the rule, and in this case, the exception lies in Act 2, Scene 2, where an "honest" conversation (sans the gilded trappings of deceit) takes place between Hamlet and Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern. Via the use of prose and figurative language, Shakespeare utilizes the passage to illustrate Hamlet's view of the cosmos and mankind. Throughout the play,

  • An Analysis of Adam’s Song

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    An Analysis of Adam’s Song Bob McKenty suggests in the poem "Adam's Song" that life is not a stationary event, it is forever changing and that in order to handle those changes humor serves as a good buffer. The tone of "Adam's Song" changes distinctly at least three times. McKenty uses rhythm, rhyme, and meter to express the essence of change in the poem and in life. The first couplet of the poem is iambic tetrameter and expresses a sentimental, romantic and lyrical tone. The speaker in the

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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    strike at the Green Knight, and then in a year and a day, the Green Knight will return the strike. This is indicated when the Green Knight says, "…So you grant me the guerdon to give him another, sans blame. In a twelve month and a day he shall of me the same"(Norton 208). A guerdon is a reward and sans means without. So when the Green Knight receives his reward for the game, which will be to return the strike in a year and a day, it will not be his fault when Sir Gawain dies because it is part of