Dene Absher Chapter 1 & 2

Chapter 1.

From the origin of writing to Gutenberg's Invention of movable type is very interesting to see and learn about. 3150 BCE are the earliest written document, impressed clay tablets from Sumer. These impressions represent clay tokens, which was used for record keeping. I think it is incredibly talented that people would take stone and carve things, build things such as pyramids or temples. All of the font that I see from 3150 BCE to 1450 CE are very bold and have so much detail. I could imagine writing these manuscripts are it taking forever, but it turns into such beautiful work that it makes it all worth it. When you look further into the chapter you can see the progression, and the millennial type fonts. I think that today we still see people reference back to these old type fonts to find inspiration in the font they chose today. This is my favorite I saw in this chapter.

Chapter 2.

In Chapter 2 I enjoyed reading about the vocabulary of the letter forms and the marking properties of brush, reed pen and stone engraver's. I like the chosen typefaces that were on pages 38 and 39.  My favorite being Egyptiam, Serifa. These typestyles have heavy square or rectangle serifs that are usually unbracketed. Vocabulary that I learned on pages 40 and 41 are going to be very important to me during this class and I truly didn't know this much detail went into type. I have already noticed myself paying closer attention to types I see on websites I use, books I read. Chapter 2 was a good chapter for me, I liked the knowledge on each type style or type face.