There are many things I learned from reading the Parts of a Letter. For starters I had no idea what a bracket was, or that there was even a name for that part of a serif letter. However even thought there were some things I didn’t know there were a lot of things that I did know. In a past graphic design class we did a little work with typography so the usual baseline, ascender, descender and serif were basic terms that I knew. Another thing I learned from this was that the parts of each letter had their own names. For example the P and C have similar curves but are not the same however they are called the same thing. Something that I found super interesting was that some of the letters had parts that are similar to human parts like the ear, arm, leg and crotch. Who knew there was so much that goes into making a font? Typography would be a very difficult major; I can only imagine the amount of work it would take to create a new font with a cool name.
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