this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.
this is a private blog for my design students and assorted other survivors. Tro blemakers all.

Friday, September 29, 2006

When two typefaces are set in the same point
size, one often looks bigger than the other.
Bigger x-heights, introduced in the twentieth
century, make a typeface appear larger.
Differences in line weight and character width
also affect the letters' apparent scale.











Mrs Eaves, designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996,
rejects the modern appetite for supersized
x-heights. The font, inspired by the eighteenth-
century designs of John Baskerville, is named
after Sarah Eaves, Baskerville's mistress, house
keeper, and collaborator. The couple lived
together for sixteen years before marrying in
1764.

the Mrs.Eaves font

2 comments:

eDadou said...

Very interesting, I just noticed that i could have found the answer for the first Assignment in your blog :)

Radio Free Pescado said...

yes you could, cheeky bugger ;-}