51-313 Typeface Design : Revivals

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Typography is at the core of everything which has to do with communication through text it contributes to the evolution of societyculture and is an integral part of contemporary design. This is an intensive studio course on a centralmost aspect of typography, typeface design, including its history, context, production, and contemporary practice. This elective will answer such questions as what is a font, how did they technically develop, and how are they made and used today This studio will introduce students to a researchbased approach to typeface design and will take advantage of historic materials from the Hunt Librarys Special Collections as a place to start our journey into the world of type. This researchbased approach on historical models will inform the semesterlong development of a font everyone will end the semester with a Latinbased typeface revival for contemporary use based on their unique materials and research findings.

Prerequisites: none listed

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