Posts

Showing posts from August, 2022

Typography /Task 1: Exercises

Image
30/8/2022 - 27/09/2022 /// Week 1 - Week 5 Osezua Ehizogie Ejodame / 0351565 Typography /Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)/Creative Media Design(Minor)/ School of Computer Science Task 1 Exercises: Exercise 1 (Type Expressions), Exercise 2(Type Formatting) LECTURES  Week 2: Typography: Development /Timeline Phoenician to Roman We begin our history lesson with the Phoenician to Roman letter forms. Their methods would include scratching marks into wet clay tablets or carving into stone tablets with tools. The tools they used had an affect on how the writing turned out. Modern Latin and Arabic can be derived from the Phoenician alphabet. The Greeks had developed a writing style called 'Boustrophedon'. I found it very interesting that the text was read from left to right and reversed from right to left. Not only was the reading direction reversed, but so were the letters. The Greeks did not use spaces