Design Principles Session 2: An Introduction to Type - OUGD404

In this session, we were going over the anatomy of type and developing more on this. We looked at the anatomy of type and went over what this meant: 

"Spacial Framework - The baseline, x-height etc.

X-height - Defines all lowercase letters. Doesn't have to be in the middle.

I found it extremely insightful looking at how the point size was worked out, as I had never considered this before. 

"Body copy fonts are designed to work at 12 points, which is one pica. Pica's are in multiples of 12's. If you purchase a font you would only get the one point size."

FONT CATEGORIES - Block

                                       - Gothic

                                       - Roman

                                     - Script

FONT - Making of type (Bone, Wood etc) Defined by Production.

TYPEFACE - Same design but a range of point sizes and characteristics. Within a family (Regular/Light/Italic/Bold) all 6 different FONTS, difference between typeface and fonts.