Week 03 — Groovy

October 5, 2015

Finally, I got into some sort of groove. A view mornings I have spent collecting and harvesting quinces, grapes and figs that grow around the property. Other afternoons, I went across the boarder, mostly around Luino, to have a proper coffee and shop affordable delicatessen. In between I often found pleasure in running into old signages—mostly set in custom made typefaces—and finding odd peaces of graphic design while walking around.

After working on basic optical laws to beginn with, I continued researching (possible) construction principles of letter forms. It appears that this basic method of constructing capital letters we now up until today, has been developed almost 2000 years ago. Most serif types you’ll find around are still based on this principle, first applied to ‘Capitalis Romana’. The first lower case characters date back approximately 700 years later—apparently one of the last significant inventions to type design.