Al's type and the insanity of its craft!

When it comes to graphic design, one aspect i am the most lost in is typography. The creation, symmetry, function, formality, idealization, structure, measurement, understanding, and more are all evident in just a simple letter. Serifs, san serif, ascenders, descenders, all of this was unknown to me until now.

My admiration lies towards Albrecht Durer. I know of him from my art hostory classes which focused primarily on his painting but it comes to stand that he was a huge driving force in graphic design and typography.

His books on proportions, De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum (books on the normal proportions of the parts of the human form) withUnderweysung der Messung (instruction in measurement) cover drawing of human form, perspective – with a dissertation on Roman caps as well as gothics.

he outlined not only how to cunstruct a letter with symmetry in a square form, but he showed great artistic focus on constructing letters in regards to their assimilation with other letters. Playing off eachother to form purely artistic "words"


The following are some of the masters fonts:

Durer Caps 

Hands on Albrecht

Albrecht Durer Gothic