Mia Tirado
ART 051
09/18/2017
Prof. John Fender
Project
02 Words
This project overall was
straightforward, but tedious due to the specific letter spaces unique to each
letter and letterform. The first type of
letter form I did the spaces for was the ITC Franklin Gothic San Serif font.
For this font, the word I found most difficult to space was actually my own
name. In my name, I found the “rad” difficult to space. I also found “gr”
tricky to space, as well as the letters that had “minimal” spacing. The
construction of this typeface was easier to space because there were no
serifs. It was easy to eyeball the
spaces correctly. For sans serif, I
found Tracy’s technique to help a little. While I employed Tracy’s techniques
for all of my words, I found it easier to eyeball my words. Although, for certain words like “Egyptian”
the technique did help a lot.
For my Serif Font, I had Bembo
Std. I did not find Tracy’s technique to
be particularly helpful for this typeface.
The spacing for a lot of the words seemed uneven, and I felt that using
my own best judgment was a better option.
Despite this, I still tested the method on all the words, because figure that the method might work for some
words rather than others. For example, I felt that the method worked much
better for words that were all caps, rather than lowercase. The words for Bembo
were a lot more difficult to space due to the serifs and the other unique
characteristics of the font. I often found myself measuring between each serif,
rather than the stems of each letter. The letter pairing I found most difficult
to space was the “ra” because they visually have a very close space already,
and it was not easy to prevent from overspacing.
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