BY KATIE GU A Curation and Classification of Typefaces used in Children’s Book
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01. 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
12 3
RO AL D D AH L
MATILDA
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. The 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. Garamond 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
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv wxyz
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
w a l t o g r a p h
It has a fixed width and height, and low contrast yet bold weights. The ‘J’ used in the script is descending below the baseline.
WALTOGRAPH BY J. CALLAGHAN
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
walter elias disney
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. N8236.P35B83 2015 704.9’4933827282 C2013-903923-6
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