Project 1

Finally got my presentation for project 1 done. Whew! Between my project and the one that followed I've noticed the history of type is a very interesting in relation to the influences of the times and the evolution of type in general. Especially pertaining to the influences of different eras and what not. Just from our presentation alone, the religious aspect was very influential. I'm interested to see where that leads to when we get to the modern presentation and see if there is still religious influence when it comes to type. I'll presume at this point that there will be since there still is religious influence in other aspects of the world outside of religion.

Handwriting

There's no real way to put handwriting into a typeface. I guess that's why handwriting is unique. Even though we all learn the same way to print letters with those two lines and the little dash along the middle to differ upper and lower case letters. Just this past week I was helping my step-niece print her letters that way. However, when I was at work this weekend I had four different people writing ticket orders and all of their handwriting was different. Some added extra loops to their letters, others were very straight forward. One was such chicken scratch that it looked like they were writing during an earthquake. I guess what I'm saying it that it's weird how we all learn the same but turn out writing differently.