Q Metaphor Sans
Metaphor Sans by Linda Baissero
Rockwell Regular
designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont for Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.
Font anatomy of the source font
1934
Meta Squared slab serif
Low vertical stress
15° cut
Short descenders and ascenders
Overshoot
Minimal contrast
Tall x-height
x-height
Baseline
Descender line
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Geometric, modernistic, attention grabbing.
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Font anatomy of the source font
phor.
Ascender line
Uppercase letters
ABCD E F GH I J K L M N OP QR ST UVWX Y Z
Lowercase letters
a bcd e f gh i j k l mnop q r s t u v wx y z
Numerals
0 2 4 6 8
1 3 5 7 9
Diacritics, punctuation, signs and symbols
.,:;!?‘ “”~*° «»<># %&@§ ©€™/\ ()[]{}_ +-×÷= àäèé òöùü
deep dar
rk secret
Evolution
m m
Rockwell Regular
Skeleton midline
Applied brushes
Residual parts cuts
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Metaphor Serif
Angle: 0° Roundness: 85% For this font one brush was used in different sizes
Size: 8,5pt Use: diagonal strokes
S iljasg Size: 9,5pt Use: horizontal strokes
Brushes
Size: 9pt Use: vertical and round strokes
24pt/27pt
13pt/17pt
Font sizes in use
9pt/13,5pt
7pt/10pt
What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit comparison between two unlike things. Traditional metaphor can be traced back to scholars from Aristotle. In his famous works Poetics, Aristotle gives his definition of metaphor: “Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species, or from species to genus, or from species to species, or on grounds of analogy” (Lan, 2005). Nowadays many of the most famous metaphors in literatureare are featured in William Shakespeare‘s works. There he reflects and enhances the English language’s reputation as a metaphorical one. So many of our everyday expressions are in fact Shakespeare metaphors.* English is a language where it’s very difficult to have a conversation without using metaphors. When we’re very cold we many say that we’re freezing, when hot, that we’re boiling, when hungry that we’re starving. We may say that we’ve been battling against a neighbour for weeks, that we’re chasing after a solution, that we’re dying to know who won a match, that our parents pounce on us when we do something wrong. When someone talks nonsense we say they babble, when something starts to happen we say it’s taking off, when something has ended we say it’s dead. All of those things are normal, everyday utterances in spoken English, so it’s perhaps no surprise that England’s finest writer has so many examples of metaphors in his works. Shakespeare’s texts are mainly written in verse, which are almost completely metaphorical, as is his prose. On the next page is one of his most famous sonnets where he compares his lover to a summer day. * There are many famous examples
such as ‘wild goose chase’ in Romeo and Juliet and ‘seen better days’ in
As You Like It to ‘forever and a day’ also from As You Like It and ‘good riddance’ from Troilus and Cressida.
Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‘st, Nor shall death brag thou wander‘st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow‘st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
11pt/15pt
Font sizes in use
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature‘s changing course untrimmed:
21pt/24pt
N i g h t
Early
o w l
12pt
bird
16pt
Better half
20pt
Typographic scale
S h a ke a l e g
24pt
Ti me a th ief
Plain sailing
28pt
32pt
Broken heart
36pt
Path of glory
Couch potato
Sweet dreams
40pt
44pt
48pt
Sweet dreams
48pt
Couch potato
44pt
Broken heart
36pt
Plain sailing
32pt
Ti me a th ief
28pt
S h a ke a l e g
24pt 20pt 16pt 12pt
Better half Early N i g h t
bird o w l
Typographic scale
Path of glory
40pt
Metaphor Sans designed by Linda Baissero First semester WUP Visual Communication
Font anatomy
2020
Me t a Pointy letters overhang
Low vertical stress
Horizontal crossbar
Moderate aperture
Closed bowl
Round letters overshoot
Minimal contrast
Tall x-height
Ascender line
Baseline
Descender line
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Edgy, fresh, simple.
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Font anatomy
p ho r.
x-height
45° terminal cuts
Font characteristics
on lowercase a, c, e, f, g, j, r, s, t; on all uppercase letters; inner cut on A, V, W
rt f
UDL WAV
XQ
QY
Aa Ss Kk Gg
Font relations
Double storey lowercase a with 45° angled finial and inner 45° cut on the uppercase A crossbar
45° angled upper terminals and horizontal lower terminals
45° cut only on uppercase K stem
Single storey lowercase g with 45° angled finial and 45° angled terminal on the uppercase G
"My shadows are
my sisters."
Font relations
ft o e G CX Z b p ji
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What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. William Shakespeare
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Q Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen WUP 2020/21 Typeface designed by Linda Baissero Prof. Antonino Benincasa Andreas Trenker Emilio Grazzi Font created with Illustrator & Fontself