Alphabet Soup - Initial tasks

Alongside the summer brief, we were asked to collect 20 examples of each letterform to form the basis of our research for the brief we got given this Monday. Before our briefing however, we chose one letter, as a blog group, to then categorise into 10 sections. We devised categories such as 'urban' - relating to graffiti or 'illustration' referring to the hand-drawn and illustrated type. However, the fundemental categories were...

Bold, italic, regular, light, UPPERCASE, lowercase, serif, sans serif, font and point size.

 All of the letters I collected (group work will be posted soon)

We were then given an introduction into the anatomy of type and how there is more to meet the eye. Although I had some knowledge on certain aspects, there was much more to learn.

 The Anatomy of type 

Ascenders, counters, bowls etc. There is a name for everything.

More information regarding typeface anatomy