Friday, May 13, 2011

The Orgins of Fonts - Sans Geometric


Time: WWI to 1980
"Age of the machine and advanced visual Ideas"

During this time period, people were looking for new "fresh" ideas. The geometric tyepfaces reflected this with large x-heights, and noticably more geometric shapes then past fonts.

Notice the O's, d's and b's are all created from perfect circles, hence the "geometric".


Sources:
Image
Notes from Kari Scheurch class

No comments:

Post a Comment