The Art of Type

The Art of

Type

Designed by Caitlin Workman

ContentsGrid StructuresRulesX-Height:ColorHyphenation RulesWidows & OrphansLinebreaksAlignmentsJustificationCombining TypefacesQuote MarksApostrophesHyphens & DashesSpecial CharactersBulletsNumerals & FiguresSmall SapsParagraph BreaksHeaders, Subheads, CrossheadsCaptions & NotesClassification of TypeFont List: ClassificationsFont Specs

Grid StructuresWhen designing a layout and working with text and /or images the use of a grid is esssential, as it is the basis on which information is organized and clarified, ensuring legibility.

Grids often need to be designed to give more flexibility than the single column of text per page. This is due to a change in our reading patterns. Although we still read consecutively, our attention is drawn to both magazines and coffee table books which are often larger in format and highly illustrated.

The grid structures for these formats have to accomodate for these formats have to accomodate a greater variety of material such as photographs, illustrations, headings, captions, references, charts; they need to be more complicated than for a grid using only text and may utilize more modules. Therefore, the design of the grid has to be relevant to its purpose

The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical series discovered in the 12th century by Leonardo Fibonacci and is used to establish proportion. The sequence of numbers below demonstrate that the sum of two numbers establishes the next number.

Tschichold Grid

Purpose in Design

The Fibonacci Sequence

Golden Section Rectangles & Spiral

The Tschichold grid proportions are established from the shape of the page, i.e. the height of the text area is the same as the width of the full page. Note that the text area will always remain the same, regardless of the scale of the page.

The design of the grid has to be

relevant to its purpose.

0 (0+1) 1 (1+1) 2

(1+2) 3 (2+3) 5

(3+5) 8 (5+8) 13…

The grid provides a framework were text, image, and space can be combined in a unified and cohesive manner. The grid can be as complex or simple as the designer needs. It is used to express the information in a sequential and logical manner, so that readers can easily navigate their way through the page. Grids are used within a variety of formats, from posters to web sites. In a magazine or book design, the grid is constructed as a double-page spread.

The example shows a grid where

the proportions of the text area are

established from the shape of the page,

i.e the height of the text area is the same

as the width of the full page. Note that

the text area will always remain the same,

regardless of the scale of the page.

3 – 5 – 8 – 13 – 21 – 34 – 55 – 89 – 144 – 223 – 377 – 610

Rectangles

3:5 – 5:8 – 8:13 – 13:21 – 21:34 – 34:55 –

55:89 – 89:144 – 144:233 – 233:277 – 277: 610

Porportions

1:1.667 1:1.618

RulesUse only one space between sentences.

Use real quotation marks.

Use real apostrophes.

Make sure the apostrophes are where they belong.

Hang the punctuation off the aligned edge.

Use en or em dashes, use consistently.

Kern all headlines where necessary.

Never use the spacebar to align text, always set tabs and use the tab key.

Leave no widows or orphans.

Avoid more than 3 hyphenations in a row.

Avoid too many hyphenations in any paragraph.

Avoid hyphenating or line brakes of names and proper nouns.

Leave a least 2 characters on the line and 3 following.

Avoid beginning consecutive lines with the same word.

Avoid ending consecutive lines with the same word.

Avoid ending lines with the words: the, of, at, a, by..

Never hyphenate a words in a headline and avoid hyphenation in a callout.

Never justify the text on a short line.

Keep the word spacing consistent.

Tighten up the leading in lines with all caps or with few ascenders and descenders.

Use a one-em first-line indent on all indented paragraphs.

Adjust the spacing between paragraphs.

Either indent the first line of paragraphs or add extra space between them – not both.

Use a decimal or right-aligned tab for the numbers in numbered paragraphs.

Never have one line in a paragraph in the colomn or following.

Never combine two serif fonts on one page.

Rarely combine two sans serif fonts on one page.

Rarely combine more than three typefaces on one page.

Use the special characters whenever necessary, including super- and subscript.

Spend the time to create nice fraction or chose a font that has fractions.

If a correctly spelled word needs an accent mark, use it.

The following is a comdendum of the rules extablished in this book. You might want to check

through them each time you complete a publication.

X-heightReadability and legibility are two key elements of printed text that typographer strive to maximize. Readability extended amount of text – such as an article, book, or annual report – is easy to read. Legibility refers to whether an refers to whether a short burst of text – such as a headline catalog listing, or stop sign – is instantly recognizable.

There are several factors that determine whether a text is readable. When deciding what typeface should be used for a job, consideration should be given to the typeface and its x-height. It is important to understand how a block of text can express a message through its texture/color, therefore suiting a particular design solution. Fonts set in the same size, same leading and column width will produce varying degrees of “color”.

In typography, color can also describe the balance between black and white on the page of text. A typeface’s color is determined by stroke width, x-height, character width and serif styles.

As a designer, if you are only asked to make the text readableon the page the following questions should be asked...

Who is to read it?Someone that wants to read it? Someone that has to read it?

hoW Will it be read?Quickly. In passing. Focused. Near. Far.

X-height: ColorReadability and legibility are two key elements of printed text that typogra-pher strive to maximize. Readability extended amount of text – such as an article, book, or annual report – is easy to read. Legibility refers to whether an refers to whether a short burst of text – such as a headline catalog listing, or stop sign – is instantly recognizable.

There are several factors that determine whether a text is readable. When deciding what typeface should be used for a job, consideration should be given to the typeface and its x-height. It is important to understand how a block of text can express a message through its texture/color, therefore suit-ing a particular design solution. Fonts set in the same size, same leading and column width will produce varying degrees of “color”.

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glori-fied contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technol-ogy of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and politi-cal values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depic-tion of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as muse-

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and move-ment. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institu-tions as museums and libraries.

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Memphis (Bold) Slab SerifRudolf Weiss

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Goudy Old Style (Regular)Humanist

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Melior (Medium)TransitionalHerman Zapf

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Scala Sans(Regular)Martin Majoor

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Hyphenation RulesIn unjustified text, the text block is set with normal letter and word spacing. Because of the even word spacing the text will have an even texture – no large spaces between words. The lines will naturally vary in length. A ragged text block can integrate with the layout and add visual interest to the page. The difficulty is making the ragged edge have a pleasing silhouette.

When the first line in the text is longer than the second, it becomes separate from the layout and creates a box-like shape. This destroys one of the advantages of unjustified text. The ragged edge needs to have a life, but a narrow column can be less active. Another advantage to ragged text is less hyphenation is needed. Therefore, names, dates or words which are normally read together can stay together.

– Consider how the text is read avoid widows

– Avoid hyphenating or line brakes of names and proper nouns

– Leave a least 2 characters on the line and 3 following

– Avoid beginning consecutive lines with the same word

– Avoid ending consecutive lines with the same word

– Avoid ending lines with the words: the, of, at, a, by..

– Never hyphenate a words in a headline and avoid hyphenation in a callout

Leave widows and orphans bereft on the page. Avoid both of these situations. If you have editing privileges, rewrite the copy, or at least add or delete a word or two. Sometimes you can remove spacing from the letters, words, or lines, depending on which program you’re working in. Sometimes widening a margin just a hair will do it. But it must be done.

Widows and orphans on a page are wrong

WidowWhen a paragraph ends and leaves fewer than seven characters (not words, characters) on the last line, that line is called a widow. Worse than leaving one word at the end of a line is leaving part of a word, the other part being paraphrased on the line above.

OrphanWhen the last line of a paragraph, be it ever so long, won’t fit at the bottom of a column and must end itself at the top of the next column, that is an orphan. ALWAYS correct this.

RiversIn typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide word spaces caused by either full text justification or monospaced fonts.

Widows & Orphans

Just as in paragraphs, headlines containing widows should be fixed or re written. Headlines should never be hyphenated.

Also, watch where the first line o a two-line headline ends–does it create a silly or misleading phrase.

Don’t leave widows (very short last lines) in headlines. Fix it either way, or rewrite!

Don Quixote de la Man-cha

Professor and The-rapist to lecture

Don’t Lose Your Self Respect

Man Walks Barefoot Across Bay Bridge

Linebreaks What are bad line breaks anyway?

Look for bad line breaks throughout every line of body copy. Of course, do this only on final copies, after all editing has been done! Here are several examples of the sorts of things to look for:

1/ Justify the headline so it remains on one line 2/ Use a line break (Shift Return) to bump “a” down to the next line, where it fits very nicely. 3/ Kern the line a tiny bit to bring the rest of the word up. 4/ Type a dischy in front of the work to bump it down. 5/ Never hypenate a person’s name. I had to go up a few lines, bump “off” down, which bumped the other line endings down. This also took care of the inappropriate widow in /6 Inappropriate widow /7 There is plenty of room to squeeze “brought” on this line, perhaps by kerning the line a tiny bit. /8 “Horsebarn” is a good long word that could be hyphenated; type a dischy. better yet, when “bought” moved up, it gave enough room to move “horsebarn” up. If not, try opening the text block or text box a wee bit /9 Edit: to get rid of that therrible widow, exchange a short word for a long word.

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AlignmentIf someone insists that fully justified text is better than left-aligned text, tell them they are wrong. If someone else tells you that left-aligned text is better than justified text, tell them they are wrong.

If they are both wrong, then what’s right? Alignment is only a small piece of the puzzle. What works for one design might be totally inappropriate for an-other layout. As with all layouts, it depends on the purpose of the piece, the audience and its expectations, the fonts, the margins and white space, and other elements on the page. The most appropriate choice is the alignment that works for that particular design.

You may find that fully-justified text is a necessity either due to space constraints or expectations of the audience. If possible though, try to break up dense blocks of texts with ample subheadings, margins, or graphics.

– Often considered more informal, friendlier than justified text.

– The ragged right edge adds an element of white space.

– May require extra attention to hyphenation to keep right margin from being too ragged.

– Generally type set left-aligned is easier to work with (i.e. requires less time, attention, and tweaking from the designer to make it look good).

There is nothing inherently wrong with centered text. As with ragged right or fully-justified text alignment, what works for one design might be totally inappropriate for another layout. There are simply fewer situations where centered text is appropriate. When in doubt, don’t center it.

As with all layouts, alignment depends on the purpose of the piece, the audi-ence and its expectations, the fonts, the margins and white space, and other elements on the page. The most appropriate choice is the alignment that works for that particular design.

No matter what alignment you use, remember to pay close attention to hyphenation and word/character spacing as well to insure that your text is as readable as possible.

– Often considered more formal, less friendly than left-aligned text.

– Usually allows for more characters per line, packing more into the same amount of space (than the same text set left-aligned).

– May require extra attention to word and character spacing and hyphen-ation to avoid unsightly rivers of white space running through the text.

– May be more familiar to readers in some types of publications, such as books and newspapers.

– Some people are naturally drawn to the “neatness” of text that lines up perfectly on the left and right.

There will undoubtedly be well-meaning friends, business associates, clients, and others who will question your choices. Be prepared to explain why you chose the alignment you did and be prepared to change it (and make necessary adjustments to keep it looking good) if the person with final approval still insists on something different.

“Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective

and non-effective communication.” — Peter Bilak - Illegibility

Traditionally many books, newsletters, and newspapers use full-justification as a means of packing as much information onto the page as possible to reduce the number of pages needed. While the alignment was chosen out of necessity, it has become so familiar to us that those same types of publications set in left-aligned text would look odd, even unpleasant.

You may find that fully-justified text is a necessity either due to space constraints or expectations of the audience. If possible though, try to break up dense blocks of texts with ample subheadings, margins, or graphics.

Justified Text

Left-Aligned, Ragged Right

Centered

color: x-heightA typeface’s color is determined by stroke width, x-height, character width and serif styles


JustificationThe ideal space between words is the width of the letter “I”

Justify text only if the line is long enough to prevent awkward and inconsistent word spacing.

The only time you can safely get away with justifying text is if your type is small enough and your line is long enough, as in books where the text goes all the way across the page. If your line is shorter, as in newsletter, or if you don’t have many words on the line, than as the type aligns to the margins the words space themselves to accommodate it. It usually looks awkward. You’ve seen newspaper columns where all text is justified, often with a word stretching all the way across the column, or a little word on either side of the column with a big gap in the middle. Gross. But that’s what can happen with justified type. When you do it, the effect might not be as radical as the newspaper column, but if your lines are relatively short, you will inevitably end up with uncomfortable gaps in some lines, while other lines will be all squished together.

When your work comes out of the printer, turn it upside down and squint at it. The rivers will be very easy to spot. Get rid of them. Try squinting at the example on the bottom of the previous page.

Justified text was the style for many years-we grew up on it. But there has been a great deal of research done on readability (how easy something is to read) and it shoes that those disruptive, inconsistent gaps between the words inhibit the flow of reading. Besides, they look dumb. Keep your eyes open as you look at professionally printed work (magazines, newsletters, annual reports, journals) and you’ll find there’s a very strong trend to align type on the left and leave the right ragged.

Here is a general guideline for determining if your line length is long enough to satisfactorily justify the text: the line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are using is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inches-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to justify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas.

Here is a general guideline for determining if your line length is long enough to satisfactorily justify the text: the line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are using is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inch-es-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to justify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas, if you like.

80, 100, 130

The standard formatting for justified text displayed, shows how both serif and sans serif typefaces work well. The paragraphs are uniformly spaced and easy to read.

Helvetica Neue (Light), Rockwell (Light) 10/10

Here is a general guideline for determining if your line length is long enough to satisfactorily justify the text: the line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are using is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inches-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to jus-tify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas, if you like.

Here is a general guideline for determining if your line length is long enough to satisfactorily justify the text: the line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are using is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inches-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to justify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas, if you like.


Here is a general guideline for determining if your line length is long enough to satisfactorily justify the text: the line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are us-ing is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inches-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to justify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas, if you like.

Here both serif and sans serif faces look too spread apart causing large rivers and odd spacing in paragraphs. The effect is that your eye is drawn to the open spaces and concentrations of letters within the text.

65, 150, 400 100, 200, 300

Helvetica Neue (Light), Rockwell (Light) 10/10 Helvetica Neue (Light), Rockwell (Light) 10/10

The justification allows the text to be readable. However, the spacing could be a little tighter.

Justification




Here is a general guideline for determining if your line length is long enough to satisfactorily justify the text: the line length in picas should be about twice the point size of the type; that is, if the type you are using is 12 point, the line length should be at least 24 picas (24 picas is 4 inch-es-simply divide the number of picas by 6, as there are 6 picas per inch). Thus 9-point type should be on an 18-pica line (3 inches) before you try to justify it, and 18-point type should be on a 36-pica line (6 inches). The rulers in most programs can be changed to picas, if you like.

The spacing between words in this example works well. However the letters are somewhat close making the words harder to decipher.

This example does not work at all. The words run into each other making the text unreadable.

25, 35, 45 95, 100, 110

Helvetica Neue (Light), Rockwell (Light) 10/10Helvetica Neue (Light), Rockwell (Light) 10/10

Justification



Combining Typefaces

Never combine two serif onts on the same page, and Never combine two sans serif fonts on the same page.

When combining serif and sans serif text fonts, one shroud try and match the characteristics of form and type color: proportion, x-heights.

“There is not binding recipe for type combinations. It is a matter of typographic sensitivity and experience. Expert typographers, as well as careless amateurs permit themselves combinations that would horrify colleagues with more tradi-tional sympathies.”

Although there is not recipe there is a place to start: keep an eye on the charac-teristic shapes of the letterform. A well designed page contains no more than two different typefaces or four different type variations such as type size and bold or italic style. {Using 2 different serif fonts or 2 different sans serifs fonts in the same composition is never a good idea}

As a general rule of thumb, there’s a very little need in using more than two typefaces or type families in a design. However, this rule can be broken de-pending on the project. First of all, what is the point of using different typefaces in design? The obvious answer is to differentiate certain elements of design. A typical page can consist of more than one element such as plain body text, headlines, subheads, side notes, captions, numbers.

Using more than one typeface when there isn’t much text may appear too garish. On the other hand, a design full of content and a variety of contrasting elements, more than two typefaces may be used to achieve the right effect.

Harmonious Combinations

Perhaps the easiest and safest way to combine multiple typefaces in design is by choosing them from the same large type family. You can simply mix types with various weights, proportions from the same family to differenti-ate the headline from the body text.

The best way is to work with so-called “super families” that consist of various subfamilies. Some of the examples of Super type families are ITC Legacy, ITC Stone, Neue Helvetica, Zapfino.

Contrast Combinations: Size and Weight

Choosing two serifs or two sans serifs for your type combinations will work too, but once again you must provide a clear distinction between all characters of type. One way to achieve this is by creating contrast in size and weight. Some types look very different when utilized with a large point size, they look especially good on headings.

The weight of a typeface is determined by the thickness of strokes. When combining typefaces with different weights it is best to go with the highest contrast: combine Regular with Heavy or Extra Bold instead of just usual Bold or Demi. Contrast in weight is one of the most efective and popular ways of combining types.

Mixing Serifs with Sans Serifs

While working with the types within the same family produced harmonious combinations, using the opposite typeface styles generate a better visual interest by adding more depth to the overall layout. The simplest approach here would be to combine serifs with sans serifs. As long as you don’t pick serif and sans serif typefaces with similar designs (ie: Times with Arial Black) you will almost never go wrong with combining practically any sans serif type with an opposite in style serif typeface. It works because serifs and sans serifs have very different structures so visually they create a good contrast.

caitlinworkman

Rectangle

caitlinworkman

Rectangle

Combining Type

aa BB ee GG gg

aa BB ee GG gg These two fonts work well together because they create a nice contrast between the thickness of Frutiger and the thin serifs of Garamond.

These two fonts don’t work very well because the struc-tures of letters are too similar and the stroke weights are both light. There is little contrast between the two so it is difficult to create hierarchy using type variation.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February

20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a mani-

festo by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The

name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on dis-

carding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the

past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture

and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary

life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and

motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several

successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s mani-

festo glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty

of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and con-

flict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural,

social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural insti-

tutions as museums and libraries.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

WORDS IN LIBERTYWORDS IN LIBERTY

Frutiger(Extra Black Condensed) 18

Bembo(Bold) 18

Frutiger (Bold Italic) 10

Bembo(Italic)10

Old Style/ Humanist Sans Old Style/ Grotesk

Adobe Garamond(Regular) 9

Helvetica(Roman)8

aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg

aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg Here, Futura works well to call attention to the header. New Century Schoolbook works nicely because the x-height is large to make the type more legible.

Walbaum provides a nice contrast to Interstate. The modern aspects of the font provide clear differences. Interstate works well as the body font because it has a larger x-height and is sans serif.

These two fonts together are odd. Didot should not be used as the body font because the contrast in its strokes are too extreme and make it hard to read.

These two fonts work very well. Akzidenz is a robust font that can work in a variety of ways. Both fonts have a similar x-height. However, structural differences allow them to express different levels of hierarchy.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in cul-ture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were char-acterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and con-flict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s mani-festo glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudia-tion of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depic-tion of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institu-tions as museums and libraries.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s mani-festo glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudia-tion of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

WORDS IN LIBERTY WORDS IN LIBERTYWORDS IN LIBERTY WORDS IN LIBERTY

Walbaum (Roman) 18

Futura(Book) 18

Helvetica (Roman) 18

Akzidenz Grotesk (Bold) 18

Walbaum (Roman) 10

Futura (Heavy) 10

Helvetica (Medium Italic)10

Akzidenz Grotesk (Italic)10

Modern/ Geometric New Transitional/ GeometricModern/ Grotesque New Transitional/ Grotesque

Interstate (Light) 9

New Century Schoolbook (Roman) 9

Didot (Roman)9

Belizio(Roman)8

Combining Type

aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg aa BB ee GG gg Gill Sans calls attention well to the header and subhead due to its bold thick strokes. The structural similarities allow the text to flow nicely and the body text creates nice contrast to the header.

Futura is almost too big and thick compared to Mrs Eaves. However, the fonts together create an interesting texture to the copy.

Rotis contrasts well with Universe because the structures color are similar. The Rotis Serif lends itself well to this combination because it creates a nice texture compared to the bod text.

The fonts don’t work well in the current levels of hier-arcy. However, if they were switched, they would have a nicer effect.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contempo-rary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technol-ogy of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural insti-tutions as museums and libraries.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on

February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a

manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on

discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of

the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture

and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary

life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and

motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several suc-

cessive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto

glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of

its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict

and called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional cultural, social,

and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as

museums and libraries.

A Prologue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were characterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repudia-tion of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

A ProloGue to Futurism: Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, original-ity, and innovation in culture and society. Futurism rejected tradi-tions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The works were char-acterized by the depiction of several successive actions of a subject at the same time. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. He exalted violence and conflict and called for the sweeping repu-diation of traditional cultural, social, and political values and the destruction of such cultural institutions as museums and libraries.

WORDS IN LIBERTY WORDS IN LIBERTYWORDS IN LIBERTY WorDs iN liBertY

Gill Sans (Extra Bold) 18

Futura(Extra Bold) 18

Rotis Serif (Roman) 18

Mrs Eaves(Roman) 18

Gill Sans (Bold Italic) 10

Futura (Extra Bold) 9

Rotis Serif (Italic)10

Mrs Eaves(Bold)10

Old Style/ Humanist Sans Transitional/ GeometricOld Style/ Grotesk Transitional/ Humanist

Sabon(Roman) 9

Mrs Eaves(Roman) 9

Univers (Light)8

Syntax(Roman)8

Combining Type



Quote MarksUse real quotation marks – never those grotesque generic marks that actually symbolize ditto/inch or foot marks: use "and" – not “and”. Most software applications will convert the typewriter quotes to the real quotes for you automatically as you type. Check the preferences for your application – you’ll find a check box to tell your application to automatically set something like “typographer’s quotes,” “smart quotes,” or “curly quotes.” Then as you type using the standard ditto key (“), the software will set the correct quotation marks for you. But it is necessary to know how to set them yourself because sometimes the software doesn’t do it or does it wrong.

Opening double quote: “ Type: Option [Closing double quote: ” Type: Option Shift ]Opening single quote: ‘ Type: Option [Closing single quote: ’ Type: Option Shift ]

Bridge Clearance: 16’ 7”The young man stood 6’ 2”The length of the wall is 153’9”.

(shown in Rockwell-light)



ApostropheAs as aside, people often are confused about where the apostrophe belongs. There are a couple of rules that work very well.

For possessives: Turn the phrase around. The apostrophe will be placed after whatever word you end up with. For example, in the phrase the boys’ camp, to know where to place the apostrophe say to yourself, “The camp belongs to the boys.” The phrase the boy’s camp says “The camp belongs to the boy.”

“The big exception to this is “its.” “Its” used as a possessive never has an apostrophe! The word it only has an apostrophe as a contraction — “it’s” always means “it is” or “it has.” Always. It may be easier to remember if you recall that yours, hers, and his don’t use apostrophes — and neither should its.

For contractions: The apostrophe replaces the missing letter. For example: your’re always means you are; the apostrophe is replacing the a from are. That’s an easy way to distinguish it from your as in your house and to make sure you don’t say: Your going to the store.

As previously noted, it’s means “it is”; the apostrophe is indicating where the i is left out. Don’t means “do not”; the apostrophe is indicating where the o is left out.

For omission of letters: In a phrase such as Rock ’n’ Roll, there should be an apostrophe before and after the n, because the a and the d are both left out. And don’t turn the first apostrophe around — just because it appears in front of the letter does not mean you need to use the opposite single quote. An apostrophe is still the appropriate mark (not ‘n’).

In a phrase such as House o’ Fashion, the apostrophe takes the place of the f. There is not earthly reason for an apostrophe to be set before the o.

In a phrase such as Gone Fishin’ the same pattern is followed — the g is missing.

In a date when part of the year is left out, an apostrophe needs to indicate the missing year. In the 80s would mean the temperature; In the ’80s would mean the decade. (Notice there is no apostrophe before the s! Why would there be? It is not possessive, nor is it a contraction — it is simply plural.

Apostrophe: ’ option shift ]



Hyphens & DashesUse hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes appropriately.Never use two hyphens instead of a dash.

Everyone knows what a hyphens is that tiny little dash that belongs in some words, like mother-in-law, or in phone numbers. It’s also used to break a word at the end of a line, of course.

You might have been taught to use a double hyphen to indicate a dash, like so : -- . This is a typewriter convention because typewriters didn’t have the real dash used in professional typesetting. On a Mac, no one needs to use the double hyphen—we have a professional em dash, the long one, such as you see in this sentence. We also have an en dash, which is a little shorter than the em dash.

En dash – (Option Hyphen)An en dash is half of the em rule (the width of a capital N) and is used between words that indicate a duration, such as time or months or years. Use it where you might otherwise use the word “to.”

In a page layout application, the en dash can be used with a thin space on either side of it. If you want you can kern it so it is not a full space.

October – December6:30 – 8:45 A.M.4 – 6 years of ag

Em dash— (Shift Option Hyphen)The em dash is twice as long as the en dash—it’s about the size of a capital letter M in whatever size and typeface you’re using at the moment. This dash is often used in place of a colon or parentheses, or it might indicate an abrupt change in thought, or it’s used in a spot where a period is too strong and a comma is too weak.

Our equivalent on the typewriter was the double hyphen, but now we have a real em dash. Using two hyphens(or worse, one) where there should be an em dash makes your look very unprofessional.

When using an—no space is used on either side

A hyphen is one third of the em rule and is used to link words. It serves as a compound modifier where two words become one, such as x-height. A hyphen is also used to break works at syllables in text blocks.



Special Characters

“ Option [ opening double quote

” Option Shift [ closing double quote

‘ Option ] opening single quote

’ Option Shift ] closing single quote; apostrophe

– Option Hyphen en dash

— Option Shift Hyphen em dash

… Option ; ellipsis

• Option8bullet(easywaytorememberasit’stheasteriskkey)

fi Option Shift 5 ligature of f and i

fl Option Shift 6 ligature of f and l

© Option g

™ Option 2

® Option r

° Option Shift 8 degree symbol (e.g., 102°F)

¢ Option $

€ Option Shift 2 (Euro symbol)

⁄ Option Shift 1 (Fraction bar doesn’t descend below the line like slash)

¡ Option 1

÷ Option Shift ?

£ Option 3

ç Option c

Ç Option Shift c

Type plays a fundamental role in thecommunication process as much throughshapes and the styling of the letters asthe actual words that they form.

The following is a list of the most often-used special characters and accent marks. On the following pages are the key combinations for just about every accent you might need. (*you will need to recreate this an x is in place of the

“real” character, ALSO use tabs to tab text over to align)

´ Option e` Option ~ ¨ Option u˜ Option nˆ Option i

Remember, to set an accent mark over a letter, press the Option key and the letter, then press the letter you want under it.

Accent Marks



BulletsBullet, of course! This very useful typographic element can add emphasis, clarity and visual interest to all kinds of copy.

Simply put, a bullet is a large dot used to draw attention to each item in a list or series. The items can be single words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs. Even if you use the bullet that is part of your font, don’t automatically assume it’s the right size: it might need to be altered in scale or position to make it look balanced next to the text.

Bullets should be centered on either the cap height or x-height, depend-ing on the nature of your copy. If all of your items begin with a cap, center the bullet on the cap, or a bit lower so it balances with the negative spaces created by the lowercase. If your items all begin with lowercase characters, center the bullets on the x-height. Insert some space after the bullet to avoid crowding the line.

The preferred way to align bullets is with the left margin. You can also have the bullets overhang the margin, and keep all your text aligned with the left margin. Whichever style you choose, your listing will look best if items that run more than one line are indented so that the copy aligns with itself, and not with the bullet on the first line.

To be more creative, substitute symbols or dingbats for the actual bullets. Try squares, triangles or check marks (just not all at once, as shown in the illustration!). Keep these simple and in proportion with the rest of your text.

Another occasion to take advantage of the baseline shift feature is when using dingbats or ornaments. Suppose you have a list of items and you really want to use a fancy dingbat from the Zapf Dingbats font, instead of using the boring ol‘ round bullet (or—heaven forbid—a hyphen). But the Zapf Dingbat character is too big. If you reduce its size, the dingbat is too low because the character is still sitting on the baseline. so select the character and shift it up to the baseline.

Pick any three adjectives that descrive yourself

•creative•intelligent•sophisticated


v creativev intelligentv sophisticated


> creative> intelligent> sophisticated


} creative} intelligent} sophisticated



Numerals & FiguresOldstyle figures are a style of numeral which approximate lowercase letterforms by having an x-height and varying ascenders and descenders. They are considerably different from the more common “lining” (or “aligning”) figures which are all-cap height and typically monospaced in text faces so that they line up vertically on charts. Oldstyle figures have more of a traditional, classic look. They are only available for certain typefaces, sometimes as the regular numerals in a font, but more often within a supplementary or expert font. The figures are proportionately spaced, eliminating the white spaces that result from monospaced lining figures, especially around the numeral one.

Oldstyle figures are very useful and quite beautiful when set within text. Unlike lining figures, they blend in without disturbing the color of the body copy. They also work well in headlines since they’re not as intrusive as lining figures. In fact, many people prefer them overall for most uses except charts and tables. It’s well worth the extra effort to track down and obtain typefaces with oldstyle numerals; the fonts that contain them might well become some of your favorites.

Notice how large and clunky these numbers appear:

Dear John, please call me at 438 – 9762 at 3:00 to discuss marriageOr write me at Route 916, zip code 87505.

Rockwell (Light)

Notice how beautifully these numbers blend into the text:

Dear John, please call me at 438 – 9762 at 3:00 to discuss marriageOr write me at Route 916, zip code 87505.

(ITC New Baskerville (Italic Oldstyle Figures)



Small CapsSmall caps are uppercase (capital) letters that are about the size of normal lowercase letters in any given typeface. Small caps are less intrusive when all uppercase appears within normal text or can be used for special em-phasis. Computer programs can generate small caps for a any typeface, but those are not the same as true small caps. True small caps have line weights that are proportionally correct for the typeface, which me and that they can be used within a body of copy without looking noticeably wrong.

Where to use small caps

The Wicked Are Very WeAry

There Is No resT For The WIcked.The Wicked Are Very WeAry

Harriet, an FBI agent, turned on CNN to get the dirt on the CIA before going to bed at 9:30 P.M.

Harriet, an FBI agent, turned on CNN to get the dirt on the CIA before going to bed at 9:30 P.M.

The capital letters in the middle of the sentence call too much attention to themselves. Notice how the small caps blend in with the text.

The capital letters for P.M. are much too large—the abbreviation is not that important.

True-drawn small caps are specially drawn to match the weight of the capital letters in the same face. Typefaces are Caslon Semibold, Caslon Expert Semibold, Caslon Regular, Caslon Expert Regular.

The weight of the computer-drawn small caps is thinner than the weight of the regular initial (first letter) caps.Typeface is Eurostile Condensed.

– Use small caps for acronyms. Set acronyms such as NASA or NASDAQ in small caps when they appear in body text or headlines.

– Use small caps for common abbreviations. Set common abbreviations such as AM or PM in small caps so they don’t overpower the accompanying text. Use small caps for A.M. and P.M.; space once after the number, and use periods. (if the font does not have small caps reduce the font size slightly)

– Use true small caps fonts. Avoid simply resizing capital letters or using the small caps feature in some programs. Instead use typefaces that have been specifically created as small caps.



Paragraph BreaksParagraph breaks set a rhythm for the reader. The breaks have a relation-ship with the column of text as well as the page margins. A break may be introduced as an indentation, as a space or both. The over all page feel will be influenced by your choice.

In typography, there are 4 rules regarding paragraph breaks:

– First line at the beginning of an article should be flush left (do not indent first paragraph)

– Block paragraphs are flush left and are separated by extra leading not a full return

– The amount indent is = to the leading (sometimes needs a bit more)

– Never hit two returns between paragraphs

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, original-ity, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bom-bastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely in-tended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention. But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become. While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expres-sive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

FUTURISM WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED ON FEBRUARY 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.BUT IT IS THE MOVEMENTS WHICH SURVIVE, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.WHILE MARINETTI’S OPENING MANIFESTO FOR ITALIAN FUTURISM bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of lan-guage, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and ges-ture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

> Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and in-flammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

> But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

> While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Dingbats are a great way to add subtle hints to paragraph beginnings

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflamma-tory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amaze-ment, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and ir-relevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innova-tion in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bom-bastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controver-sy, and to attract widespread attention.

But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Ital-ian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” ap-proaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still reso-nant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become

“an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflamma-tory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amaze-ment, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exag-gerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflamma-tory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amaze-ment, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflamma-tory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amaze-ment, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discard-ing what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contem-porary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the move-ments, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the trans-formed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninter-rupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innova-tive and expressive typography.


But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915).

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futur-ism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombas-tic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse con-troversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exag-gerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and ex-pressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggres-sive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

//Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.//But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.//While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today —was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflamma-tory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amaze-ment, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”



Headers, Subheads, CrossheadsHeader: a line of text indicating the subject of a passage

Sub-head: A heading of a sub-division, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.

– Choose a predominately symmetrical or asymmetrical form for subheads. Mixing the two haphazardly leads to stylistic as well as logical confusion.

– If symmetrical heads are added to a basically asym-metrical series, or vice versa, it is usually better to put the visiting forgeiners at the top or the bottop of the hierarchial pile.

– Never hyphenate a word in a headline.

Rules for header and sub-head application:

Words in LibertyA Prologue to Futurism

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris news-paper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, re-flected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contem-porary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire pub-lic anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later mani-festos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declama-tion and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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RADIcAL mIx OF ART & LIFE

A prologue to Futurism Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futur-ism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrat-ing change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by empha-sizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.RaDIcaL mIx Of aRT & LIfE But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the move-ments, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futur-ism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenom-ena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of col-lage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innova-tive and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggres-sive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

> Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and in-flammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

> But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.


Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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Words in LibertyA Prologue to Futurism

Radical Mix of Art & Life

A PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM// Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contempo-rary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

RADICAL MIX OF ART & LIFE// But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and ir-relevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innova-tion in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bom-bastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controver-sy, and to attract widespread attention.

But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Ital-ian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” ap-proaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still reso-nant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become


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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflamma-tory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amaze-ment, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exagger-ated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become. While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Ital-ian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrat-ing change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futur-ism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggres-sive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract wide-spread attention.

But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or un-ripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outra-geous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declama-tion and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engage-ment, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Every-thing of any value is theatrical.”

WORDS IN LIBERTY

RADICAL MIX OF ART + LIFE

PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM

Prologue to Futurism


WORDS IN LIBERTY

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris news-paper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, re-flected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contem-porary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire pub-lic anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later mani-festos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declama-tion and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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A PROLOguE TO FuTuRISm

RADIcAL mIx OF ART & LIFE


But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” ap-proaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still res-onant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers be-tween themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

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> Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and edi-tor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, original-ity, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was pas-sionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.

> But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

> While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become


Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention. 1. Phillip

Meggs, HIstory of Graphic Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998

But it is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.” 2. parole in liberta = words set free (liberty)

3. selbst = himself

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1. Phillip Meggs, HIstoryof Graphic Design, VanNostrand Reinhold, 1998

2. parole in liberta =words set free (liberty)

3. selbst = himself

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radical mix of art & life

//Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.//But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.//While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

FUTURISM WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED ON FEBRUARY 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futur-ism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and cel-ebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.1

Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggres-sive and inflammatory and was purposely intended to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract wide-spread attention.BUT IS IS THE MOVEMENTS WHICH SURVIVE, ODDLY, HERE where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into focus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Russian & Italian sides, the first great “art” move-ment led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exagger-ated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.WHILE MARINETTI’S OPENING MANIFESTO FOR ITALIAN Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists of-fered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indiffer-ence and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3

(circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

A PROLOGUE TO FUTURISM

RADICAL MIX OF ART & LIFE

Wo

rd

s in

Lib

er

ty

/ Words in Liberty


2. parole in liberta = words set free (liberty)

3. selbst = himself

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a ProLogue to Futurism

radicaL mix oF art & LiFe

1. PhiLLiP meggs, historyoF graPhic design, Vannostrand reinhoLd, 1998

2. ParoLe in Liberta =Words set Free (Liberty)

3. seLbst = himseLF///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


But is is the movements which survive, oddly, here where we live and work as poets and artists: or, if not the movements, then their sense of art as an life itself. All of which, as futurism, had come sharply into fo-cus by the start of the world war: a first radical mix of art and life, the epitome in the poplar mind of an avant-garde. It was, on both its Rus-sian & Italian sides, the first great “art” movement led by poets; and if its means now sometimes seem exaggerated or unripe in retrospect, they carry within them the seed of all that we were later to become.

While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “techni-cal” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new images… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phe-nomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typography in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futurists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst3 (circa 1915).

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The name Futurism, coined by Marinetti, reflected his emphasis on discarding what he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and soci-ety1 Futurism rejected traditions and glorified contemporary life, mainly by emphasizing two dominant themes, the machine and motion. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its tone was aggressive and inflammatory and was purposely intend-ed to inspire public anger and amazement, to arouse controversy, and to attract widespread attention.


While Marinetti’s opening manifesto for Italian Futurism bristled with a polemical stance in favor of the transformed present (1909), the later manifestos of Futurist poets and artists offered formal, “technical” approaches to the works then getting under way. The key term—still resonant today—was parole in liberta 2, by which poetry was to become “an uninterrupted sequence of new im-ages… (a) strict bet of images or analogies, to be cast into the mysterious sea of phenomena.” This freedom-of-the-world, while it resembled other forms of collage and of image juxtaposition, more fully explored the use of innovative and expressive typog-raphy in the visual presentation of language, as set in motion by forerunners like Mallarme. Outrageous and aggressive, the Futur-ists’ performances mixed declamation and gesture, events and surroundings, indifference and engagement, to break the barriers between themselves and those who came to jeer or cheer them. Wrote Marinetti selbst 3 (circa 1915), “Everything of any value is theatrical.”

Words in Liberty



3. selbst = himself

a ProLogue to Futurism

radicaL mix oF art & LiFe

1. Phillip meggs, historyof graphic design, Vannostrand reinhold, 1998


3. selbst = himself

Words in Liberty

A Prologue to Futurism




Variations in Stress

Garamond did not think of himself as an Old Style designer any more than John Baskerville could realize that some day he would be considered a Transitional designer. What happened is this. Over the centuries type became more and more refined; that is, the contrast between thick and thin strokes became greater and the serifs became finer. This refinement was possible because of the development of smoother papers, better inks, and more advanced printing methods. The ultimate refinement was attained in the late 1700’s when Bodoni reduced the thin strokes and serifs to fine hair-line strokes.

Classification Of Type

Serifs also vary from one face to the next in their weight and in the way they are bracketed; that is the way in which the serif meets the vertical stroke of the letter. Once again, you can see the evolution of type from Garamond to Baskerville, to Bodoni this was followed by the return of the heavy serif in Serifa and the elimination of the serif in Univers.

Faces also vary in degree of contrast between thick and thin strokes of the letters. In Garamond you can see a prominent characteristic of little contrast between thick and thin strokes of a letter. In Transitional faces there is a tendency toward refinement and greater contrast between thick and thins. Bodoni has maximum contrast in these strokes (extreme contrast of thick and thins, hairline serifs). With Serifa there is a return to very little contrast (almost mono-weight. In Univers the is an absence of any noticeable thick and thin strokes; there is a uniformity of strokes (mono-weight).

As early typefaces were based on the written letterforms the scribes, it was important that the type designer tries to capture as much as the written form as possible. The letter O is a good example to study the distribution of weight which creates a vertical stress through the thinnest part of the letterform. It was this characteristic that the early typefaces tried to imitate. This is quite clear in Garamond. As type evolved and the designer was no longer influenced by handwriting, the stress became more vertical as in Baskerville and later totally vertical with Bodoni. In Univers you will find no noticeable stress.

After Bodoni, type design became eclectic. In search of new forms of typo-graphic expression, designers began to borrow features from one period and add them to another. We see a lot of this today. Many of the fonts designed in the 20th Century are difficult to classify.

Variations in Thicks and Thins

Variations in Serifs

xoaengdp – little contrast between thick and thin of strokes – stroke weight has inflections similar to handwriting – strong diagonal stress such as on letter o – sloping bar on letter e

– contrast between thick and thin strokes is more pro- pronounced – horizontal bar on e – diagonal stress is less prominent – shorter x-height

– contrast between thick and thin strokes is pronounced – very slight diagonal stress – bracketed serifs – horizontal bar on e – tall x-height

xoaengdp

xoeangdp – mono weight – square ended serifs – horizontal stress – horizontal bar on e

– sturdy typefaces hold up under poor printing – little contrast between thick and think strokes – horizontal stress – horizontal bar on e – tall x-height, shorter ascenders, descenders

xoeangdp

– extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes – hairline (strokes) serifs – horizontal stress – horizontal bar on e

xoaengdp

xAag

xAag– slight contrast in the stoke weight – slight squareness to the curves– usually a tall x-height : short ascenders and descenders– usually a two story lowercase a– capital R usually has curled leg, capital G usually has spur

Helvetica, Univers, Akzidenz Grotesk, Folio

Grotesque

xAag – vary little contrast in the stoke weight (monoline)– a little wider set– constructed from simple shapes : circle and rectangle– usually a one story lowercase a– upper case A has a pointed apex

Geometric

– based on the proportions of the Roman capitals– some contrast in the stroke weight– lowercase a and g are usually two story

humaNist

xoeangdp

Jenson, Goudy’s Kennerly, Bruce Rogers’ Centaur

Sabon, Garamond, Bembo, Times, Plantin, Caslon Old Style

Bodoni, Bauer Bodoni, Walbaum

humaNist didoNe (moderN)

NeW traNsitioNal Geralde (also call old style)

traNsitioNal eGyptiaN or slab-serif

Bookman, Century Schoolbook, Cheltenham

Baskerville, Caslon, Perpetua, (newer Garamonds) Memphis, Clarendon, Serifa, Rockwell

Futura, Kabel, Metro

Syntax, Frutiger, Praxis, Stone Sans

Serif Sans Serif Classification Of Type

Font List: Classifications

HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq?!&

HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq !?&

HAMBURGERQhambgerq?!&

HAMbUrGerQ hamburgerq ?!&

HAMBURGERQhamburgeq!?&



HAMBURGERQ !? & HAMBURGERQ ?!&

akzideNz Groteskh. berthold & GuNter laNGe

Grotesque

baskerville (NeW baskerville) JohN baskerville

traNsitioNal

belizioberloW

traNsitioNal

bembofraNcesco Griffo

old style

bookmaNalexaNder

pharmistertraNsitioNal

bodoNi (bauer bodoNi)

Giambattista bodoNimoderN serif didoNe

casloN(adobe casloN)

casloNtraNsitioNal

chollahaGmaN

saNs serif

Characteristics: two-story a, straight R leg, spur on G, short descenders

Characteristics: contrast in stroke, serifs sharper & tapered, vertical axis, circular curves

Characteristics: unusual ears, ball terminal, tall x-height, short ascenders & descenders

Characteristics: calligraphic serifs, transitional curve on stem, terminal flare out & up

Characteristics: straight serifs, minimal stroke variation

Characteristics: narrower, inbracketed serif, extreme stroke contrast, geometric

Characteristics: short ascenders & descenders, bracketed serifs, hight contrast, no spur on G

Characteristics: variety of weights, tapered curve marked out in lowercase b

font, designer, characteristics


HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq ?!&



HAMBUGERQhamburgerq?!&



Hg Ay Bur Ger Eat Rope Que ?!&


(adobe GaramoNd)claude GaramoNd

Geralde (old style)

Gill saNseric GillhumaNist

Goudyfrederic Goudy

Geralde (old style)

helveticamax miediNGer

Grotesque

iNterstatefrere JoNes

Grotesque

kueNstler script

haNs bohNscript

meliorhermaN zaphtraNsitioNal

memphisrudolph Weiss

slab serif

HAMBURGERQhambugerq!?&


HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq 1?&


HAMBURGERQ HAMBURGERQ !?&



HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq?!&

clareNdoNrobert besleyslab serif

clickerGreG thompsoNsaNs serif

didotfirmiN didotmoderN

diNuNkNoWN desiGNerGrotesque

disturbaNceJeremy taNkardserif

filosofiazuzaNa lickomoderN

frutiGeradriaN frutiGerhumaNist

futurapaul reNNerGeometric

Monoweight, ball terminals, square serif, horizontal stress Bracketed serifs, more pronounced thick & thin, lower x-height

Outline of television repeated Two story lowercase g & a, some stroke width contrast, curved R leg

Straight serif, no bracket, very fine hairlines, substantial stems Unique Q tail, thick & thin variations, bracketed serifs, two story a & g

Short descenders, no spur on G, two story lowercase a Two story a, slight squareness to curves, short descenders, spur on capital G, curved R leg

Straight Q tail, abstract G spur, bracketed serif, mix of lower- and uppercase letters Sans serif, two story a, weight similar

Bracketless serifs, two story a, extreme contrast between thick & thin, abstract Q tail Diffferent line weight, elegant thick to thin strokes, calligraphic style

Curved R leg, squareness to curves, two story a, short descenders Technical form, thick to thin line weights, designed based on the rectangle

One story lowercase a, wider set, pointed A apex, perfect circle bowls Geometric vertical, horizontal strokes of similar weight


HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq ?!& HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq ?!&




HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq ?!&HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq ?!&

HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq?!&HAMBURGERQ hamburgerq ?!&

HAMBUGERQhambrgeq?!&HAMBURGERQ hamburgerg ?!&

HAMBURGERQ hambugerq?!& HAMBURGERQ hamburgeq?!&


mrs eaveszuzaNa lickotraNsitioNal

shellymattheW carter

script

NeWs Gothicmorris fuller beNtoNGrotesque

sNell rouNdhaNdmattheW carter

script

plateletcoNor maNGatGeometric

sWiftGerard uNGer

traNsitioNal

rockeWelldesiGNer uNkoWNslab serif

syNtaxhaNs eduard

meierhumaNist

rotis saNsotl aicherhumaNist

trade GothicJacksoN burke

Grotesque

rotis serifotl aicherhumaNist

uNiversadriaN frutiGer

Grotesque

saboNJaN tschicholdold style

voltakoNrad bauer

slab serif

serifaadriaN frutiGerslab serif

WalbaumJustus Walbaum

moderN

Bold line weights, thick & thin strokes Based on human handwriting, elegant, highly stylized, short x-height

Thin stroke width, two story a & g, tall x-height Based on human handwriting, medium x-height, diagonal stress

Elliptical, rounded, two story a & g, caps made into lowercase letters Stroke contrast, tall x-height, long tail on Q

Geometric, similar stroke width Tall ascenders, terminals at right angles to stroke direction, two story a & g

Thin stroke width, two story a , tall x-height, curved capital R Tall x-height, narrow character width, minimal stroke contrast

Bracketed serifs, tall x-height, medium stroke variation Tall x-height, minimal stroke contrast

Strong contrast in stroke weight, long tail on G Square-ended serif, slight stroke variation, wide character width, medium x-height

Square ended serifs, monoweight stroke, tall x-height, wide character width Extreme stroke contrast, tall x-height, narrow with



CLASSIFICATION: GROTESQUE

romaN

bold

black

akzidenz Grotesk

MaxogGdQRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *



Font Specsvisual typographic reference

CLASSIFICATION: TRANSITIONAL

reGular

small caps

italic

bold

New baskerville

MxaogGdQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups cor-respond roughly to the Renaissance, Ba-roque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





CLASSIFICATION: NEW TRANSITIONAL

reGular

italic

bold

BLack ITaLIc

belizio

MxagGdQrRA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-es was devised in the nineteenth cen-tury, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have con-tinued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.



Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @



liGht

bold

black

bell Gothic

mxaggdQrriA basic system for classifying typefaces

was devised in the nineteenth century, when

printers sought to identify a heritage for their

own craft analogous to that of art history.

Humanist letterforms are closely connected

to calligraphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main

groups correspond roughly to the Renais-

sance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in

art and literature. Designers in the twentieth

and twenty-first centuries have continued

to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.


aa bb cc dd ee Ff gg hh ii Jj Kk Ll mm nn oo Pp Qq rr ss tt uu Vv Ww xx yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *


CLASSIFICATION: OLD STYLE

reGular

italic

bold

extra bold

bembo

MxnogGdQrrstA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when print-

ers sought to identify a heritage for their own

craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. transitional

and modern typefaces are more abstract and

less organic. these three main groups cor-

respond roughly to the renaissance, baroque,

and enlightenment periods in art and literature.

designers in the twentieth and twenty-first

centuries have continued to create new type-

faces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces

was devised in the nineteenth century,

when printers sought to identify a heri-

tage for their own craft analogous to that

of art history. Humanist letterforms are

closely connected to calligraphy and the

movement of the hand. Transitional and

modern typefaces are more abstract and

less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance,

Baroque, and Enlightenment periods

in art and literature. Designers in the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based

on historic characteristics.

Aa bb Cc dd ee Ff Gg Hh ii Jj Kk Ll Mm nn oo Pp Qq rr ss tt Uu Vv Ww Xx yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *





regular

italic

bold

bold italic

bookman

MxaogGdQrRA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Hu-manist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-enment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups corre-spond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment peri-ods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





CLASSIFICATION: MODERN

reGular

italic

bold

orNameNts

(bauer) bodoni

MxaogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9





reGular

italic

sWash

orNameNt

alterNate

(adobe) caslon

MxanogGdQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.




Aa Ba Ca Da Ea Fa Ga Ha Ia Ja Ka La Ma Na Oa Pa Qa Ra Sa Ta Ua Va Wa Xa Ya Z

A a Bb C c D d Ee F f G g H h Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Or S s Ot Uu Vv

Ww X x y Z z 1 2 3 4

c h i k l Ss T t


reGular

italic

bold

bold italic

New century schoolbook

MxaogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.



aa bb cc dd ee ff GG hh ii JJ kk ll mm NN oo pp qq rr ss tt uu vv WW xx yy zz 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *




book

italic

bold

ultra

cheltenham

MxaogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






CLASSIFICATION: SANS SERIF

uNicase

reGular

cholla

MaxnogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.









less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance,

Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art

and literature. Designers in the twentieth



characteristics.

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn

Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ( ) { } ? ! @ & *


CLASSIFICATION: SLAB SERIF

liGht

reGular

bold

clarendon

MxagGdQrRtA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-enment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twen-ty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.




CLASSIFICATION: SANS SERIF

reGular

clicker

MaxnogGdQRsA basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art histo-ry. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more ab-stract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.


CLASSIFICATION: MONOWEIGHT

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bold

courier New

MaxogGdQrRA basic system for classify-ing typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first




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didot

MxaogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renais-sance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twenti-eth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





middel-

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MaxnogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






CLASSIFICATION: SERIF

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italic

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A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised

in the nineteenth century, when printers sought

to identify a heritage for their own craft analo-

gous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms

are closely connected to calligraphy and the

movement of the hand. Transitional and modern

typefaces are more abstract and less organic.

These three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries have con-

tinued to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.

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italic

bold

black

egyptienne

MxnagGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefac-

es was devised in the nineteenth cen-

tury, when printers sought to identify a

heritage for their own craft analogous

to that of art history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely connected to callig-

raphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces

are more abstract and less organic.

These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque,

and Enlightenment periods in art and

literature. Designers in the twentieth

and twenty-first centuries have contin-

ued to create new typefaces based on

historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-


tury, when printers sought to identify

a heritage for their own craft analo-

gous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected

to calligraphy and the movement of

the hand. Transitional and modern

typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups cor-

respond roughly to the Renaissance,

Baroque, and Enlightenment periods

in art and literature. Designers in the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries

have continued to create new typefac-

es based on historic characteristics.





CLASSIFICATION: BLACKLETTER

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fette fraktur

MxnaopQrRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when

printers sought to identify a heritage for

their own craft analogous to that of art

history. Humanist letterforms are closely

connected to calligraphy and the move-

ment of the hand. Transitional and modern

typefaces are more abstract and less or-

ganic. These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and

Enlightenment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first

centuries have continued to create new

typefaces based on historic characteristics.


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MxnaopQrRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nine-teenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and mod-ern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first cen-turies have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





book

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MaxodQRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying type-faces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to iden-tify a heritage for their own craft anal-ogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups cor-respond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefac-es based on historic characteristics.





CLASSIFICATION: HUMANIST

coNdeNsed

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bold

ultra black

frutiger

MaxodQRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analo-gous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefac-es are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.




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CLASSIFICATION: GEOMETRIC

book

bold

extra bold

futura

MxaopQRstGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups corre-spond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment peri-ods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.



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italic

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Gill sans

MaxnbyogGQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renais-sance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and En-lightenment periods in art and litera-ture. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.


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Goudy

MabyoigGdQrRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Design-ers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





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bold

black

helvetica

MaoygGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth cen-tury, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligra-phy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





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italic

black

orNameNts

hoefler text

MxaoygGdQRA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-ment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Re-naissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.




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bold

black

bold coNdeNsed

interstate

MaoygGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces


when printers sought to identify a

heritage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letterforms

are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transi-

tional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three

main groups correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-

ment periods in art and literature. De-

signers in the twentieth and twenty-first


typefaces based on historic character-

istics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-





letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefac-

es are more abstract and less organic.













featherWeiGht

Welter

full heavy

bold No.2

knockout

MaexnyogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised

in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to

identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely

connected to calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque,

and Enlightenment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

have continued to create new typefaces based on







CLASSIFICATION: SCRIPT

reGular

kunstler script

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italic

bold

bold

melior

MayogGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twen-tieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transi-tional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-ment periods in art and literature. De-signers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic character-istics.






book

bold

italic

liGht

Gothem

MayogGdQRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







liGht

medium

extra bold

memphis

MxagGdQrRtA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heri-tage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefac-es was devised in the nineteenth cen-tury, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and En-lightenment periods in art and litera-ture. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





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caps

black

italic

meta

MaxogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art his-tory. Humanist letterforms are closely con-nected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefac-es are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlighten-ment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







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italic

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fractioNs

mrs eaves

MaxogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth century, when print-

ers sought to identify a heritage for their own

craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transitional

and modern typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups correspond



Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first cen-

turies have continued to create new typefaces

based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the

nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage

for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist

letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-

ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond

roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces

based on historic characteristics.



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italic

bold

News Gothic

MaxogGdQrRstA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when print-ers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when print-ers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.





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ocr a

MaopQRfGgA basic system for clas-

sifying typefaces was

devised in the nineteenth

century, when printers

sought to identify a her-

itage for their own craft

analogous to that of art

history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely con-

nected to calligraphy and

the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern

typefaces are more ab-

stract and less organic.

These three main groups

correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and



saNs

saNs bold

serif

serif bold

officina

MxaodQRtfGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have contin-ued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.

A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letter-forms are closely connected to callig-raphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and En-lightenment periods in art and litera-ture. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






book

italic

bold

optima

MxaopQRstGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.






liGht

old style

medium

black

palatino

MxaopQRstGgA basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to calligraphy and the move-ment of the hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less or-ganic. These three main groups correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to create new typefaces based on historic characteristics.







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italic

bold

perpetua

MxaopQRstGgqA basic system for classifying typefaces was














A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised in

the nineteenth century, when printers sought to identify

a heritage for their own craft analogous to that of art

history. Humanist letterforms are closely connected to

calligraphy and the movement of the hand. Transi-

tional and modern typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment periods

in art and literature. Designers in the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries have continued to create new






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heavy

platelet

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tage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely connected to cal-

ligraphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces are

more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-

enment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-

first centuries have continued to create

new typefaces based on historic charac-

teristics.




tage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letter-

forms are closely connected to cal-

ligraphy and the movement of the hand.

Transitional and modern typefaces are

more abstract and less organic. These

three main groups correspond roughly to

the Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlight-

enment periods in art and literature.

Designers in the twentieth and twenty-

first centuries have continued to create

new typefaces based on historic charac-

teristics.

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alterNate

bold

priori sans

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A basic system for classifying typefaces was devised

in the nineteenth century, when printers sought to

identify a heritage for their own craft analogous to

that of art history. Humanist letterforms are closely

connected to calligraphy and the movement of the

hand. Transitional and modern typefaces are more

abstract and less organic. These three main groups

correspond roughly to the Renaissance, Baroque, and

Enlightenment periods in art and literature. Design-

ers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based on historic

characteristics.





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alterNate

bold

priori serif

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A basic system for classifying typefaces was de-

vised in the nineteenth century, when printers

sought to identify a heritage for their own craft

analogous to that of art history. Humanist let-

terforms are closely connected to calligraphy

and the movement of the hand. Transitional and

modern typefaces are more abstract and less

organic. These three main groups correspond




centuries have continued to create new type-

faces based on historic characteristics.





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italic

serif

italic

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to calligraphy and the movement of the

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three main groups correspond roughly to the

Renaissance, Baroque, and Enlightenment

periods in art and literature. Designers in

the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have

continued to create new typefaces based on



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Design by Caitlin Workman

For Professor Wertzberger’s Typography 02

University of Kansas, Spring 2010

Text for the book was compiled from the following sources:

Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

Getting it Right with Type: The Do’s and Don’ts of Typography by Victoria Squire

Mac is Not A Typewriter by Robin Williams.

Other quotes and information was borrowed from Typographic Systems by Kimbery Elam

This book is not to be sold to the public and is intended

only to be used by the designer as a learning tool and typographic reference.

Documents

The Art of Type