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    Helvetica is an internationally known, widely used sans serif typeface developed by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger (1910-1980) and co-developed by Eduard Hoffman at the Haas type foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland owned by Linotype. The steadily popular typeface was officially released in 1957 under the name ‘Die Neue Haas Grotesk’. The original name was kept until 1960, and was changed to Helvetica (Latin for Swiss) by a marketing manager within the company due to expressing their successful plans to market the font internationally, and to do so they requested a name change to make it more appealing towards an international market. Originally, they decided on the name Helvetia (Latin for Switzerland). However, the name was somewhat…

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    Nt1330 Unit 2 Assignment

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    p {line-height:115%;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-left:0pt;margin-right:0pt;margin-right:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;font-family:HCR Dotum;font-size:11pt;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-emphasize-style:none;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;color:#000000;background:none;text-shadow:none; } Unit 1 I think that is necessary to have more teachers that encourage students to progress in life.…

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    Airlines which is founded in 1930, formerly American Airways Inc.It is a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. They operate international and domestic network which is the second largest airline by number of destinations served, after United Airlines. The assignment was introduced to designers by Henry Dreyfuss, the great designer who was a consultant to American Airlines. The logo of AA designed by Vignelli is one of the airlines logos that did not changed for over 40…

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    Fonts play a pivotal part in the design of a logo. Let’s look first at the two most popular schools of fonts, serif, and sans serif. Serif fonts communicate a more traditional and respectable type of business, whereas sans serif typefaces portray a more modern and stable business. (Hunt “A Pro Designer Shares the Psychology of Font Choices [Infographic]”.) Ted Hunt of “The Daily Egg” breaks this down further through the analysis of popular fonts. He sees Century Gothic as modern, Bookman Script…

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    Arial Fontt

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    The typeface I am picking is the Arial font. The Arial typeface was drawn in 1982 by designer Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. It was original called Sonoran Sans Serif and was renamed Arial in 1992. Arial was made similar to the Helvetica font design, some say copying it for thickness and height. It started off as a bitmap font. The bitmap were high-resolution laser comp fonts that were used as a starting point to sample down give it a 240dpi or 300dpi font. Arial was original…

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    15,000 - 10,000 BC The first known visual communication, with symbols discovered in the Lascaux caves in southern France. These images showed the appreciation the civilization had toward animals. 3600 BC The Blau Monument is the oldest monument known to incorporate both words and pictures. 105 AD Paper is invented by the Chinese government official Ts’ai Lun. 1045 AD Movable type is invented by Pi Sheng, this allowed individual letters to be used in printing work. …

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    Typography Analysis

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    programs can now be quickly switched to hang punctuation. 3. Pay special attention to kerning. Kerning is the space between the letters themselves. Although auto kerning functions in some programs are sufficient for body copy, often the space between letters needs to be corrected for some letter combinations. 4. Proper leading helps readers. Leading is the space between the lines themselves. The term comes from the old days of metal typesetting when strips of lead would be used to separate…

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    tooth sensitivity (55-75% of the patients) (Kihn, 2007) , cervical root resorption, (Dahl & Pallesen, 2003), increased surface roughness, genotoxic and tumor-promoting effect (Tredwin, Naik, Lewis & Scully, 2006), reduction of enamel and dentin strength, decreased micro hardness, and demineralization causing reduction in calcium, phosphate and carbonate concentration in enamel (Berger et al., 2014; Dahl & Pallesen, 2003; Darshan & Shashikiran, 2008; Kihn, 2007; Tredwin et al., 2006). Previous…

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    The typeface on the How to Spot Skin Cancer infographic is Helvetica like, in that it saves space and can be elongated and thickened when needed (Ben Barrett-Forrest, 2013). The typeface is thickened on the word “SPOT” in the title which serves as a visual cue and explanation of the purpose of infographic “How to Spot Skin Cancer (Skin Cancer Infographic, n.d.). I also find the word spot important in relation to skin cancer as one is searching for unusual and suspicious spots on their body.…

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    What Is Typography?

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    connected. Type is the perception of dialect. With regards to feeling of sound Humans have discovered numerous methods for outwardly reporting sound. While this is basically done using letterforms, much other perception is likewise basic. Case in point the musical score, maybe the most strict perception of sound as it takes Into thought the uproar, length, and tone of a sound Another case of sound being consolidated into a visual outline is Cassie Hester 's establishment piece, Dig Deep You can…

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