Thanks to the fact that its types were adopted to the printing press, the humanistic typography was gaining prominence. The diffusion of this typography was limited and even many professionals are surprised that it reached our days. It is a reaction to the rise of the Gothic letter of the moment. That is, it was a voluntary discovery or creation of the old types. When this writing appears, It was a big change since it was the first time that a typography style did not follow a logical evolution of writing of this time, of a current writing. This typeface was made using pens with a very wide tip, which allowed certain inflections to be made. Humanistic writing, it differed from the rest by its more rounded and wide style.
In the middle of this same century, the printing press appears at the hands of Johannes Gutenberg, who created the first Gothic mobile types. The type was based on the humanistic manuscripts given in the fifteenth century. This group of fonts were inspired, as we have already mentioned, in the style of Roman letters. Each of the geographic regions had differences in the way they did it. On many occasions, we are so used to visualizing the Latin alphabet as we currently know it, that practically we forget that it has been written in a great variety of ways.
When using them, you have to take into account the thickness of each of them.Īnother characteristic feature of humanist typefaces is that height of lowercase characters is too small if compared to uppercase, the line spacing needs to be larger. When a block of text is written consecutively, a dark spot is created that makes it very difficult to read and tires the eyes, so legibility is lost. The serifs that are created for these typefaces are very rough or heavy. These outlines of the characters seek to imitate the hard drawing that was done with calligraphy pens. In addition, the characters have an oblique model, that is, the width of the stroke is not always the same and the letters are inclined backwards. In its lowercase “e” character, an oblique fillet is distinguished, which is very representative of this type of typeface. The main characteristics of this typeface is the little contrast between the thinnest and thickest tracings. The humanist typefaces, which are the ones we are talking about today, are based on the proportions of uppercase roman typefaces and low-case handwriting made by the Renaissance humanists.
On this day, We are going to talk about humanistic fonts, also known as Venetian or human. In this publication in which you are, we are going to learn to identify the different typographic families that exist.
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