Typographic Code

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Typographic Codes
March 2009
Joint Project - Joe Provis

Brief:
Produce a piece of typography that involves a code

Description:
Looking at creating an 'econimical typeface', we went through 9 commonly used fonts used for copy (Gill, Helvetica CY, Times New Roman, Officina Sans, Baskerville, Caslon, Bodoni, and a couple of others). Then for each letter of the alphabet...A, B, C etc. we found the surface area that each letter covered, from each font. For example the 'A' from Baskerville covered 13% of our set area; this was the smallest percentage covering for any on the 'A s' out of our 9 fonts....therefore its the most economical. This percentage is then translated to a grid of 100 squares;...for 13%, 13 are coloured in. This gives us the code for the letter. This is then repeated throughout the alphabet.
They are colour coded for the fonts that ended up being involved:

Baskerville - Yellow
Caslon - Red
Officina Sans - Green
Bodoni - Purple
Helvetica CY - Brown

Phew...