Type Specimen: Fab Serif - by Fabiana Maria Gelmetti

Fab Serif

Fab Serif designed by Fabiana Maria Gelmetti

BYE MODERN No. 20, WELCOME FAB SERIF. 19 pt

Fab Serif is the evolution of an already existing font called Modern No. 20.

Modifying the skelethon and using different sized brushes, I obtained a new font with its own features, such as the distinctive angle of the stroke that can be found on several letters. It still has bracketed serifs and different thicknesses that give a nice and well balanced impression.

11 pt / 14 pt

Teardrop terminal

Claw - shaped terminal

Shorter cross stroke

Bracketed serif

Unbracketed, short and sharp serif

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lowercase letters

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typeface characteristics

vertical stress

pointed ear

x-height

joins are approximately the same angle

closed loop

w

baseline

slightly elongated counterforms

horizontal stress

usage of the font in poetry

MY MISTRESS‘ EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN 31 pt / 28 pt

My mistress‘ eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red; if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask‘d, red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks; and in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go: my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.

16 pt / 20 pt

by William Shakespeare

14 pt

numberals

features

wedged shoulder pointed terminals

moderate aperture vertical stress

Fabulous

Ascender / Cap height X-height

Baseline

unbracketed serif

slight contrast

moderate aperture

modern stress angles straight base of the serif

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types of serif In this font there are different types of serif both in lowercase and uppercase letters.

Overall they are unbracketed and sharped in order to give an elegant feeling.

NASA‘S MARS LANDER SENDS BACK FIRST PICTURES FROM RED PLANET 22 pt / 24 pt InSight probe reveals desolate landscape as dust settles after its arrival on Martian surface 10 pt

This is the view across Elysium Planitia, the vast lava plain near the equator of Mars, where Nasa’s InSight lander touched down after a hair-raising descent on Monday. The probe snapped the image of the desolate landscape as the dust thrown up by its arrival was still settling around it.

Over the coming days, InSight will take more photos of the landing site and send them back to Earth, where scientists will use them to decide where the probe should place its instruments.

The lander’s seismometer will be an ear to the ground that listens for “marsquakes”, which shudder through the planet when slabs of underground rock fracture and slip. Another instrument will burrow into the ground and take the temperature of the red planet.

13 pt / 14 pt

Hours after InSight touched down, the probe called home to say its solar panels had opened and were collecting what feeble sunlight reaches the planet. On a clear day the panels will generate 700W.

Taken with a clear dust cover still in place on the camera lens, the picture was beamed up from the Martian surface to Nasa’s orbiting Odyssey spacecraft, and from there sent the 91m miles (146m kilometres) to Earth.

11 pt / 12 pt

“ THE ESSENCE OF WRITING AND LETTERING IS TO MAKE LANGUAGE VISIBLE AND RETRIEVABLE „ 45 pt / 55 pt

Fernard Baudin 19 pt

Software which have been used to create the font:

Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen Typeface designed by Fabiana Maria Gelmetti WUP 18/19 Prof. Antonino Benincasa Gian Marco Favretto Maximilian Boiger Calligraphy Workshop by Mag. Art. Eva Pรถll Font created with Illustrator & Fontself