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FuturAntiqua.otf: An all-inclusive design space of typographic style in OpenType 1.8 Font Variations
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As OpenType 1.8 Font Variations paves its way as the technological standard in
digital typography, the full extent of its capabilities is yet to be realised. By embedding
the data required to create specific characteristics or historical styles
within its framework there exists a potential to reduce conventional font libraries
into a universal typeface, able to recall specific typefaces as required by a user.
This results in a single file that is accessible across digital environments, able to
finesse the typeface so as to satisfy any style requirements.
This dissertation views the way in which typography in the Latin alphabet
has originated and how production technologies have influenced typefaces up
to the digital formats that we are accustomed to. The manner in which we write
has influenced type design for characters to remain legible and is considerably
important to early digital parametric fonts and must be respected to build comprehensible
typefaces of any given style.
A succinct compilation of 24 exemplary typefaces were selected to reflect
historical periods are investigated and compared within Vox classifications (3
typefaces per style) and across the gross data to generate outlines of specific style
instances that are interpolable in OpenType Font Variations. The outlines test
possibilities of design space arrangements and how component parts and axes
can be designed for optimal control, consistency, and rapid generation.
Based on previous ideologies of a universal typeface by means of reduction,
and instead redefining it as one of an all-inclusive nature makes use of these
technological advancements to create a design space that mimics historical representations
of type. The resulting typeface bears 3 axes that relate to the strokes
of a writing implement: one of contrast, one of stress and one for serifs; able to
be expanded to include greater control of more type design features.
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OpenType1.8 Font Variations Universal font Typeface Design