Week One: The Cube Font History Project

This first week of the fall semester we started back into the swing of things with a Typeface history 3d cube project. I found this very unique and exciting because I knew which typeface I'd choose: Baskerville. Baskerville was one of my favorite fonts to use for really anything, it honestly to me fits most genres of music and the type of moods I like to portray in any of my designs. Once I got the information down, I set to make the cube. The wifi kept crashing my document of information which made everything a bit annoying but I got it done! I had to print it out next which was the most annoying part of the process and that was because the printers were DOWN. I had to use what I had and make it work and I feel that I did a great job with what I had to work with. I overall enjoyed this project and can't wait to see what comes in the near future!

Information: 

Ethan Amis

Baskerville: The History

Baskerville was made in 1754

is most known for its crisp edges, high contrast and generous proportions. 

The typeface was heavily influenced by the processes of the Birmingham-bred John 

Baskerville, a master type-founder and printer, who owed much of his career to his beginnings.

SOURCE: IDSN 

The crispness of Baskerville's work seems to have unsettled (or perhaps provoked jealousy in) his contemporaries, and some claimed the stark contrasts in his printing damaged the eyes.

Baskerville was never particularly successful as a printer, being a printer of specialist and elite editions, something not helped by the erratic standard of editing in his books.

SOURCE: WIKI

When John Baskerville designed his namesake typeface, his goal was to perfect the styles of a much older typeface, Caslon. The idea was to make it more legible, for the time period was experimenting with readability as well as paper and ink manufacturing.

SOURCE: Morganlmurray