Typography: Part 1

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This will be our initial look into the world of text. All those letters that we string together to form books, online articles, blog posts, and the like.

Most mere mortals pay little attention to the how and why of assembling all those words into a form worthy of consumption.

“Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.” ― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

This series will begin with a simple classification of the different typefaces used today. To keep things simple I, and many others, have chosen to break them down into 5 different groups; serif, sans-serif, monospace, handwritten, and decorative.

Serif

Sans-serif

Monospaced

Handwritten

Decorative