{"id":3648,"date":"2009-09-20T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2009-09-20T00:48:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T07:48:06","slug":"making-a-type-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3648","title":{"rendered":"Making a type sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6407368&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6407368&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6407368\" target=\"_blank\">The Making of a Type Sample<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fontshop\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once a font is completed, showing the letters and glyphs in their best light is a tricky exercise. FontShop does it right and in this video shows some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\/blog\/?p=819\"  target=\"_blank\">the decisions made<\/a> when creating a good type sample &#8211; in this case, the sample for Matthew Carter&#8217;s beautiful Miller typefaces, which I used for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/668\">The Sacramento Union Magazine.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the 1800s, type foundries used to set their samples in Latin \u2013\u00a0following the belief that our alphabet looks best in its original language. Marcus Tullius Cicero&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catiline_Orations\"  target=\"_blank\">first speech against Lucius Sergius Catilina<\/a> (below) was popular for samples. <\/p>\n<p>Today, graphic designers use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsum.com\"  target=\"_blank\">Lorem Ipsum<\/a> for placeholder text.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/MINT!.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Robert Thorne&#8217;s Fat-Face type sample, 1821<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Making a type sample\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3648\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Making of a Type Sample from FontShop on Vimeo Once a font is completed, showing the letters and glyphs in their best light is a tricky exercise. FontShop does it right and in this video shows some of the decisions made when creating a good type sample &#8211; in this case, the sample for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,54,127,120],"tags":[126,67,122],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-design-history","category-fonts","category-typography","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}