Type series post 2: the anatomy of a character

[marybaum]

Next post in the series.

[marybaum]

Ready for first review. Finally!

I would like to add some third-party references.

First, the two pages I cribbed a lot of the terms from: https://www.canva.com/learn/typography-terms/ https://www.fontshop.com/glossary

I could also see doing an extra piece just on classifications.

[justintadlock]

@marybaum - It looks like you forgot the link to the Google Doc. :)

[marybaum]

Well dayum. How bout this? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z3Rfoy63cKlwYBw2L2DLmvTtqTS2Cwb4-FwnEwsO7rg/edit#heading=h.p5o949hqmvru

[marybaum]

Thanks for the catch!

[justintadlock]

I just wrapped up a first review. Just a few comments from me. I really like the choice of typefaces!

As for the third-party links, those look OK to me.

[annezazu]

Reviewed and left just a few comments here and there. I can't help but also see a few opportunities to touch on some outside resources. For example, perhaps we could link to https://fontreviewjournal.com/ for anyone who wants to go deeper in learning about fonts (it's run by https://profiles.wordpress.org/heckhouse/). Tied to this, I wonder about connecting this post to the work around having a font library and how we can weave that in: https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/52698 It's slated for 6.4 so might help tie the series into real world application of WordPress in the future.

Otherwise, looks good!

[marybaum]

Thanks very much! I will add that in. One thing, though: fonts are merely the files we install. The thing that’s interesting to me is type — since the spring of 1975!

[marybaum]

Parking this here for now. https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/making_sense_of_typographic_classifications Think I'll add a reference section with the links up top, this on classifications and the review journal.

[marybaum]

skipping the Font Review Journal. It's actual reviews and design examples of fewer than 100 typefaces (not even whole families) and her WP profile page is blank.

[marybaum]

Public preview in the P2: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=1855&preview=1&_ppp=83f668dd29

[justintadlock]

@marybaum - This looks good to go now, so publish whenever you're ready.

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[marybaum]

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[marybaum]

Published!

[marybaum]

https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/08/the-anatomy-of-a-letterform/

[marybaum]

Social copy:

Typography series part 2: The anatomy of a letterform. Letters have parts! See how they combine to give a typeface its voice.