Typography - Project 2: Font Design
9/10/19 - 23/10/19 (Week 7 - Week 9) Ahmed Yaman Ibrahim (0341119) Typography Project 2 LECTURE NOTES Lecture 7: Describing letterforms & Project 2 Briefing 09/10/19 (Week 7) I was absent this week, but I went through the presentation for the lecture, which explained the basics of type anatomy. Fig. 1.1: Glossary of terms for type anatomy Baseline: The imaginary at line the visual base of the letterforms. Median: The imaginary line defining the x-height of letterforms. X-height: The height in any typeface of the lowercase ‘x’. Stroke: Any line that defines the basic letterform. Apex / Vertex: The point created by joining two diagonal stems (apex above and vertex below). Arm: Short strokes off the stem of the letterform, either horizontal (E, F, L) or inclined upward (K, Y). Ascender: The portion of the stem of a lowercase letterform that projects above the median. Barb: The half-serif finish on some curved strokes. Beak: The half-ser...