Typography Task 1: Exercises
Type Expression and Text Formatting 29 March 2022 (Week 1 - 6) Mabuchi ARATA / 0351579 Typograohy / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media Task 1 : Exercise 1 Lectures Week 1 Lecture 1 Main topic : History of Western Typography Early letterform In the ancient times, the word are tend to be written on the wet cray by sharpened stick or carving into stone with a chise. (Fig 0.1 Ancient Phoenicial alphabet) Originally wester uppercase Latin letter forms were evolved from ancient Phoenician Characters which were used to represent materials or tools. The Phoenician characters were formed by simple combinations of straight lines and pieces of circles. When the Phoenician turned into Greek languages,it didn't just change the direction of sentences. Phoenician and other Semitic people were used to write sentences foes to next line with start writing opposite side like forming zig zag. This was the reason for why orientation of the letterf...