Research Point

The alphabet is only part of a typeface that contains lots of different characters such as numbers, punctuation, mathematical and monetary symbols and ligatures. Ligatures are where two letters are combined together to make printing easier. Explore your computer keyboard to find some of the other characters. You will need to use your shift, alt and ctrl keys.

This was just random pressing of Alt+numcode, lots of funny and foreigh symbols came up. — ˜ ‘ Šٷ ، ኖ ʷ ᇢ،ٰٮ ƽ 뇫 Ӫ. When I work at my work computer, I sometimes use a list of characters from the code in the alt + numpad combination. My main symbols are • ° ²» etc.

I was interested in trying to practice with the keyboard on my Mac, it was more out of curiosity, because we are surrounded by many characters, the meaning of which we do not even suspect, but in the modern world we use a limited set of standard characters that are familiar to business correspondence.

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Choose a magazine, for example the Big Issue or Heat, and look at the main typefaces theyuse for the body text and headlines. Go to http://www.identifont.com and use the programme toidentify the fonts. Look at the ranges of typefaces all around you and try to identify theirdistinguishing characteristics. Make notes in your learning log.

I wanted to try experimenting with this site, to find out what its essence is. At hand I had several issues of magazines, one of them was the British Journal of Photography. At first glance, the most common search engine, but when I disassembled this site in more detail, I discovered for myself you can say a new font selection system for professional work. As I often found it difficult to find the right font, when you come across something unusual in an article or poster, I sometimes had to look through all the fonts in my Adobe Illustrator program to find the right one. But here the search for the desired character resembled an exciting game. Frankly, at first I incorrectly selected the fonts, a small error could lead me to a completely different font, but the more precision in the selection of characters, the higher the likelihood that you will find a suitable font.
I also had the release of the September Vogue magazine, I was interested in what elegant font was used in it. It’s easiest to use the Times New Roman Serif font or Baskerville, but why not discover something new.

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Conclusion

I found the first part of the task quite interesting for myself, it was interesting to find out where a symbol is hiding. For convenience, I would print myself a cheat sheet of the main signs and symbols that may be useful in design. The second part of the assignment turned out to be even more interesting, because thanks to her, I can now replenish an even more collection of fonts for my subsequent work. I will be happy to use this system in my future works for inspiration.