Solospice Serif
Solospice Serif by Aimilia Kourti
FF Fago by Ole Schäfer and Andreas Eigendorf, 2000 published by FontFont
straight cut terminals
undershoot
minimal contrast
overshoot
vertical stress
Font anatomy of the source font
vertical terminals
thinner strokes in intersections
ascender line cap height x-height
baseline
descender line
open aperture
round dots
angled stem
Uppercase Letters
ABCDE FGHIJK LMNOP QRSTU VWXYZ
Lowercase Letters
abcde fghijk lmnop qrstu vwxyz
Numerals
0123 456 789
Diacritics, punctuation, signs and symbols
àáäèé òóöùúü .,:;!?'´`“” «»/\()[]{} +-×÷=<>~ % * # @_€ ™
Evolution
"FF Fago" skeleton - applied brushes - applied serifs - Solospice Serif
Brushes
serif_vthin angle: -10째 roundness: 27% size: 7,5pt
serif_thin angle: 10째 roundness: 27% size: 9pt
serif_thick angle: -14째 roundness: 37% size: 10pt
serif_horizontal angle: -52째 roundness: 28% size: 9pt
Font sizes in use
21pt/24pt
Chilli pepper: is it a friend or a foe?
12pt/14pt
For thousands of years, humans have taken a masochistic pleasure from adding chilli to their food. Now research indicates that the spice that has undoubtedly made our lives more interesting may also make them longer. There is only one mammal that enthusiastically eats chillies.
9,5pt/11,5pt
"Humans come into the Western hemisphere about 20,000 years ago," says Paul Bosland from New Mexico State University. "And they come into contact with a plant that gives them pain. Yet five separate times, chilli peppers were domesticated in the Western hemisphere because humans found some usefulness - and I think it was their medicinal use." The potential for both health and harm has always been a defining characteristic of chilli peppers. A team at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences tracked the health of nearly half a million participants in China for several years. Participants who said they ate spicy food once or twice a week had a mortality rate 10% lower than those who ate spicy food less than once a week. Risk of death reduced still further for hot-heads who ate spicy food six or seven days a week. Chilli peppers were the most commonly used spice among the sample, and those who ate fresh chilli had a lower risk of death from cancer, coronary heart disease and diabetes. For thousands of years, humans have taken a masochistic pleasure from adding chilli to their food. Now research indicates that the spice that has undoubtedly made our lives more interesting may also make them longer. While the health-promoting properties of chillies may not be fully understood, at least we have a good idea where to look to find the source of them. Cut a chilli open and you will see yellow placenta-like fronds that attach the seeds to the inside of the fruit. In most types of chilli, this is the location of the spices secret weapon - capsaicin.
6pt/8pt
There is only one mammal that enthusiastically eats chillies. "Humans come into the Western hemisphere about 20,000 years ago," says Paul Bosland from New Mexico State University. "And they come into contact with a plant that gives them pain - it hurts them. Yet five separate times, chilli peppers were domesticated in the Western hemisphere because humans found some usefulness - and I think it was their medicinal use." The potential for both health and harm has always been a defining characteristic of chilli peppers, and among scientists, doctors and nutritionists it remains a matter of some dispute which prevails. A team at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences tracked the health of nearly half a million participants in China for several years. They found that participants who said they ate spicy food once or twice a week had a mortality rate 10% lower than those who ate spicy food less than once a week. Risk of death reduced still further for hot-heads who ate spicy food six or seven days a week. Chilli peppers were the most commonly used spice among the sample, and those who ate fresh chilli had a lower risk of death from cancer, coronary heart
disease and diabetes. It is used in pepper spray, however. The use of chilli peppers as weapons dates back to pre-Columbian times, when, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s said, Mayans burned rows of them to create a stinging smokescreen. And in what may have been a pre-Columbian version of the naughty step, an ancient Aztec codex shows a parent propelling a teary-eyed infant near a pit of burning chillies. However, the Aztec codices also tell us that they put chilli on their teeth to kill toothache pain, and the use of capsaicin as an analgesic also continues to this day. Joshua Tewksbury, a natural historian at the University of Washington, thinks the burning sensation we experience when we come into contact with chillies is an evolutionary trick. "Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;re not actually being damaged by the capsaicin the way we would be if we were touching a stove, but our brain thinks we are," he says, adding that all mammals experience the same sensation but that birds do not. "They can eat chillies like popcorn and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;t feel the heat." In this way, Tewksbury suggests, the plant evolved to repel animals that might crush its seeds with their molars, but not ones that would help disperse them.
Typographic scale
80pt Carolina
70pt Ghost Pe
60pt Habanero
50pt Thai Peppe 40pt Tabasco 30pt Cayenne 20pt Chipotle
a Reaper
epper
o
er
wedged shoulder slab serif
undershoot
higher contrast
10° diagonal stress
15° wedged shoulder
overshoot
Font anatomy
horizontal terminals
closed aperture
thinner strokes in intersections
ascender line cap height x-height
baseline
descender line
horizontal terminals
oval dots
unilateral serif terminal
Font characteristics
double storey a
l dots ova
thinner strokes in intersection
unilateral unbracketed serif
15°
angled cut in intersections for better readability
unbracketed slab serif
minal ter
ll
a b r a c ket e d b
bilateral serifs, slightly asymetric
vertical serif
visib le c on tr
15° wedged shoulders
vertical cuts
un
as
t
hotizontal terminals
Font relations
nmhru ocebdpq ilk jft vwy xz a s g
letters have the same shoulder
letters are created with the o stroke
straight stem, ball terminal for over-/undershoots
combination: round stroke vertical stroke & ball terminal
round stroke ear has serif angle
2 mirrored round strokes vertical serifs
angle of diagonal strokes is kept with slight changes
OQCGDU PRBS IHLMEFT VAW J KXYZ round letters created from letter O
o stroke is scaled to create round parts
straight stem with applied serifs
unbracketed ball terminal for undershoot
angle of diagonal lines is kept or slightly changed
Title
Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen WUP 2020/21 Typeface designed by Aimilia Kourti Prof. Antonino Benincasa Andreas Trenker Emilio Grazzi Font created with Illustrator & Fontself