KATIE GU

BY KATIE GU A Curation and Classification of Typefaces used in Children’s Book

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GAR AMOND 02.

INTERSTATE COMPRESSED BOLD SESAME STREET 03.

BODONI THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR 04.

DOCTOR SOOS THE CAT IN THE HAT 05.

WALTOGR APH DISNEY MICKEY MOUSE 06.

HARRY POTTER FONT HARRY POTTER

garamond

GARA MOND

regular bold itallic

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RO AL D RA H L

JK ROWLING

G

ARAMOND

is an old-style typeface created by

engraver Claude Garamond in the 16th century. One of the most common font used in body text for children’s book is Garamond font, as it is clear and easy to read.

T he font uses double story letters such as ‘g’ and has a low x height. It has a medium contrast with soft serifs. The top serifs on ascenders of letter has a downward slope. Garmond revivals has a matching bold and lining numbers at the height of capital letters. Also, the letterforms of an ‘e’ has a small eye and the bowl of the ‘a’ has a sharp hook upwards at top left .

old style

Tobia s Frere -Jone s Design

1993-1999

INTERSTATE COMPRESSED BOLD

continuous construction, upright stem edges parallel, medium width, relative proportions following the roman sqaure capital proportion, no contrast, no transition, light in colour, hooked stroke, single story letters, ‘Q’ without spur, sitting on baseline, pointed capital A, straight leg, continuous treatment of curves, relative internal proportions ascenders equal to cap- height

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sans-serif

1993-1999

SEASAME STREET

BODONI BODONI BODONI BODONI BODONI BODONI BODONI

Bodoni is both didone and modern font designed by Giambattista Bodoni in the late 18th century. Bodoni is a modern serif font, slightly condensed, with high contrast between stems and horizontal strokes. It has a vertical stress, as well as long, thin and unbracketed serifs and carries a geometric construction. It has tabular lining figures, and standard ligatures.

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR

DOCTOR SOOS FONT

THE CAT IN THE HAT

The font was designed by Sean Trowbridge

2011-08-17

The typeface has medium weight, and medium width. It uses glyphs, has vertical stress and low contrast. It is a sans serif font that uses double story letters, and letterforms sits on the baseline. It has a horizontal cross-bar, pointed letters, straight leg, and tail dissecting bowl. (Also used for diplay)

doctor soos

The font classification would go under style-comic

WALT DISNEY COMPANY

W

w a l t o g r a p h

O R

A P H

G WALTOGRAPH BY J. CALLAGHAN

walter elias disney

T

A L

It has a fixed width and height, and low contrast yet bold weights. The ‘J’ used in the script is descending below the baseline.

typefaces and fonts introduced in 2000, designed by Justin Callaghan

The letters used in Mickey Mouse logo is Waltograph, a typeface based on the lettering of the Walt Disney logotype. . It is a casual script, last developed in 2004. It has no stroke modulation, and it uses uppercase letters. The typeface is constructed reference to human.

script casual script

script casual script

w a l t o g r a p h

HARRY HARRY HARRY HARRY HARRY HARRY HARRY

POTTER POTTER POTTER POTTER POTTER POTTER POTTER

Harry Potter Font displayed font designed by Phonix Phonts in the year 2005 medium width high x height single story one aperture thick stroke modulation low contrast

Harry potter font

Harry potter font

Harry potter font

Image credits: 2017, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, png, PlusPng, accessed 2020, <http://pluspng.com/png-56397.html> Mickey Mouse Minnie Mouse Goofy Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, face, heroes, head png. Transparent png, <https://www.pngwing.com/en/free-png-kurdo> Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse, transparent image, Dreamstime, <https://toppng.com/disney-hollywoodwalt-walt-disney-and-mickey-mouse-transparent-PNG-free-PNG-Images_179259> 2017, Cat in The Hat PNG HD, Transparent Images, PlusPng, accessed 2020, <https://toppng.com/disneyhollywood-walt-walt-disney-and-mickey-mouse-transparent-PNG-free-PNG-Images_179259> 2020, Sesame Street PNG, png with transparent background, <https://toppng.com/sesame-street-PNG-freePNG-Images_88621> Printed in Canada _______________________________ The text of Fonts Upon a Time is set in Apple Garamond, an old style serif , a typeface drawn by Pasisan engraver Claude Garamond based in sixteenth century.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Katie Gu, editor Fonts Upon a Time/Katie Gu ; COMD204-Project1 Type Safari.

ISBN 975-1-696359-81-7 (pbk.)

1. Student project. 2. Illustration and Communication Design--Classroom. Emily Carr University of Art + Design, host institution V. Title.

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