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Sematic Profil for Typefaces
Posted by h in
25 Mar 2004 — 12:08pm
25 Mar 2004 — 12:08pm
Hello,
I'm working in my study-project on a semantic profil to describe typefaces.
The profile should build on design- and emotional attributes.
Has anyone worked with semantic profiles and can me help !?
Thank you for this, martin
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25 Mar 2004 — 12:18pm
Do you mean categorizing the emotions that fonts can convey? This is tricky stuff. You might want to look at G W Ovink's "Legibility, atmosphere-value and forms of printing types" (1938), and J Langdon's article in Critique issue #14 (I think).
hhp
27 Mar 2004 — 2:11am
Yes it's tricky. its also not for the whole sum of fonts, I'm only select typefaces,
they are more
27 Mar 2004 — 9:38am
It sounds like you should get in touch with Jorge de Buen, who is deeply involved in elaborating on what he calls "typometry": the formal measurement of fonts.
hhp
28 Mar 2004 — 3:45am
hey Martin,
your name sounds german to me. If so, I can recommend Klaus Hesse's "Der Helvetica-Mann" and a few older articles in the Page-magazine by Christian Gutschi "Psychologie der Schriften". I'm working on a similar project.
28 Mar 2004 — 3:56am
hallo romesh,
you're right - i'm german like you!?
i study at the "HfG Schw