A Typeface Designed by Christian Thalmann Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant
“Good typography is invisible and you should not pay attention to the letters you are reading.”
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display type family
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drawn, spaced, kerned, programmed, interpolated, and
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spans across 45 files and comes in 9 visual styles: Roman, Italic, Infant Italic, Garamond, Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, and Unicase. This font comes in 5 weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold. Type IntroductionAnatomy 2 Cormorant SemiBold 87pt Serif Tail Counter Baseline Stem x-height Medium 70pt Ascender Bar Descender Display Type
Christian THALMANN Medium 99pt Light ItalicChristian75pt Thalmann is a Swiss designer and astrophysicist, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He runs a font foundry called Cartharsis Font on a hobby basis, of which there are currently 11 font families. About the Designer 3
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Body Text
Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Swiss type designer Christian Thalmann, which was heavily inspired by Claude Garamont’s immortal legacy. This font was drawn, spaced, kerned, programmed, interpolated, and produced solely by Christian Thalmann from scratch.
Light 12pt Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Swiss type designer Christian Thalmann, which was heavily inspired by Claude Garamont’s immortal legacy. This font was drawn, spaced, kerned, programmed, interpolated, and produced solely by Christian Thalmann from scratch.
SemiBold 12pt Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Swiss type designer Christian Thalmann, which was heavily inspired by Claude Garamont’s immortal legacy. This font was drawn, spaced, kerned, programmed, interpolated, and produced solely by Christian Thalmann from scratch.
Regular 12pt Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Swiss type designer Christian Thalmann, which was heavily inspired by Claude Garamont’s immortal legacy. This font was drawn, spaced, kerned, programmed, interpolated, and produced solely by Christian Thalmann from scratch.
Medium 12pt Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Swiss type designer Christian Thalmann, which was heavily inspired by Claude Garamont’s immortal legacy. This font was drawn, spaced, kerned, programmed, interpolated, and produced solely by Christian Thalmann from scratch.
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This project spans across 45 files and comes in 9visual styles: Roman, Italic, Infant Italic, Garamond,Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, andUnicase. There are also 5 weights: Light, Regular,Medium, SemiBold, and Bold.14 pt
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This project spans across 45 files and comes in 9 visual styles: Roman, Italic, Infant Italic, Garamond, Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, and Unicase. There are also 5 weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold. pt
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This project spans across 45 files and comes in 9visual styles: Roman, Italic, Infant Italic, Garamond,Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, andUnicase. There are also 5 weights: Light, Regular,Medium, SemiBold, and Bold.14 pt
This project spans across 45 files and comes in 9 visual styles: Roman, Italic, Infant Italic, Garamond, Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, and Unicase. There are also 5 weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold. 14 pt
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SERIF Sophisticated CRIMSON Display Typography Medium 100pt Light Italic 65pt Bold Semibold69pt Italic 92pt Italic 89pt Type Specimens 15
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Letterforms
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I inserted the chosen letterform between X and Y, as I used an X for the diagonal line, and the overall form of the letter resembles a Y. The purpose of this activity was to analyse and create a visual understanding of the existing conventions of the typeface, such as dimensions, curves, and serifs.
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Letterform in Alphabet
For Week 1's SDL, we had to create a 27th letter of the alphabet using our assigned font. I chose to use Cormorant in the SemiBold weight, and created 12 sketches in my workbook by combining different angles and stroke shapes of existing letters. I then picked 4 sketches to digitalise in Illustrator.
To create the letterforms, I first used the Text tool to type existing base letters, then right clicked on them to use the Create Outline feature, which converted the text into shapes. I then used the Shape Builder tool to cut different parts, and finally merged the shapes into letterforms. B C D E F G H K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Chosen Letterform
27th Letter 18
Mānawatia a Matariki Pukapuka hei mahi
Nō te whetū matua o Te Iwa o Matariki te ingoa Matariki. He mahangā iwi puta noa i Aotearoa [New Zealand] kua whaitake ki a Matariki – e whitu ngā whetū ki tēnā iwi, e iwa ngā whetū kei tēnā iwi. He hononga tō ng āhuatanga tuku iho a-iwi ki te mātahi o te tau hei mihi ki ngā mea nui o ō rātou oranga.
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Ka aro tēnei pukapuka hei mahi ki ngā kaupapa matua e toru, hei whakaako hoki ki a koe ngā āhuatanga mō Matariki.
Matariki
Ka whiti mai te kāhui o Matariki hei te ata i te paerangi ki te rāwhiti i mua tonu i a Tamanui-Te-Rā. Ka tohua te tīmatanga o Te Mātahi o Te Tau, te Tau Hou Māori rānei.
Ka whakanuia te tīmatatanga o te tau hou hei te kaupeka o takurua (Hune – Hūrae).
Hei te wā o Matariki, he wā kia noho piri koe ki tō whānau, ō hoa me tō hāpori kia whaiwhakaaro mō ngā āhuatanga o mua, kia whakanui te nāianei, kia māheretia te anamata.
19 Pieces of Writing
Eva Min @em_comdes
No, but where are you actually from?
Due to COVID-19, there has been an increase in hate speech and racism. It is however, not a new issue. For East Asians residing in New Zealand—especially those of us as second-generation immigrants—we experience racism every day. Sometimes remarks are so casual, the stereotypes so ingrained, you wonder whether you are even allowed to be offended? How do we answer questions like: “Where are you from? No, but where are you actually from?”
“How is your English so good?” We are never perceived as New Zealanders, because of our ethnicity. The discrimination make us feel vulnerable and question our identity. It seems like our fate to feel like a perpetual foreigner in a place we call ‘home’. No walls have been vandalised in this unspecified site-specific installation proposal.
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The original purpose of He Muka was to promote te reo Māori as a living language; to publish kupu hou and to promote the work of Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori.
The purpose of He Muka is to support te reo Māori revitalisation by:
2. Raising critical awareness (by discussion of revitalisation issues);
He Muka
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He Muka is the digital magazine of the Commission, incorporating the Commission's events, new terminology coined by the Commission and other important issues relating to the Māori language. The main objective is to provide a publication written entirely in Māori language of the highest quality, specifically targeted at fluent speakers.
3. Improving acquisition (by providing examples of best practice);
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5. Increasing corpus (by drawing attention to new words and terms).
1. Upholding status (by providing exemplars of best use);
He Muka is a publication in te reo Māori published by Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Māori–Māori Language Commission. He Muka was originally a printbased periodical featuring te reo Māori issues using language of a standard to provide an exemplar for advanced learners and fluent speakers. The first issue was published in June 1988. The first colour edition was published in Kōanga 1991. It was a quarterly publication, and until recently was a full colour publication of approximately 16 pages. There was a two year hiatus period of non-publication. The final issue that was printed was Hōtoke 2015. In 2017 He Muka was revitalised and in December 2017 a digital version of He Muka was launched on the Commission's website.
4. Increasing usage (by providing an enjoyable and interesting publication to users of te reo Māori);
Google Fonts. (n.d.). Cormorant https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cormorant#about Catharsis Fonts. (n.d.). MyFonts. https://www.myfonts.com/collections/catharsis-fontsfoundry Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. (2022). Matariki activity book. https://www. booktepapa.govt.nz/learn/for-educators/free-downloadable-activity-books/matariki-activityAuckland University of Technology [insitu_aut]. (2021, May 10). “No, but where are you actually from?” Is a powerful photographic/digital work by 3rd year Communication Design student Eva Min @em_comdes raising issues on racism and hate. See the work and read about it on the landing in WE, between levels 4 and 5. @autartanddesign @autuni [Photograph]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/COrb9DSnLJ7/ He Muka. (n.d.). Past Papers https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/muka Cc References 22
Original Release: August 24th, 2015 by Christian Thalmann Weights: Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold Available: Google Fonts, Github Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant Cormorant