Member Dun… Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Tell them they can only use “these 20” and you’ll see! I had a professor limit us to ten without any problems. Link to comment
Member cla… Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 This sounds fun. Here are my twenty desert island typefaces: 1. Helvetica Neue 2. Univers 3. Garamond 4. Bodoni 5. Clarendon 6. Rockwell 7. Gotham 8. Avenir Next 9. DIN 10. Perpetua 11. Bembo 12. Trade Gothic 13. Interstate 14. OCR-A 15. Caslon 16. Sabon 17. Mrs. Eaves 18. Meta 19. Meta Serif 20. Comic Sans Yeah, I said it. Comic Sans. It serves as a way to weed out the bad ones: any student that uses it gets dropped from the program. Link to comment
Member 198… Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Following this thread https://typography.guru/forums/topic/57079-forwarding I'm just glad someone actually thinks about the type libraries available to students, so thanks Andy. - @James (kindly) Limiting students is good, for some of their time at university. However, excluding economics, what would be the point in limiting students to 20 (or 10 as James mentioned) for their entire duration at college? - Why not buy 10 'classic' typefaces and 10 'contemporary' typefaces. Surely learning involves looking forwards as well as backwards. Anyway like I said, thank you for even considering the dusty digital type library. There is probably no ideal combination Any chance you are at University of the Arts London Andy? Andy Link to comment
Member mar… Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I had started to post before and looked at the date of this original request...2003! Just for the sake of anyone who may be gleaning useful information from this thread, I'll post the information that I have. My type class at an accredited art & design university had an official "list of typefaces"; thus insinuating they were faces that learned designers should be familiar with. On this list were: Centaur Jenson Bembo (Adobe) Garamond Minion Times New Roman Baskerville Mrs Eaves Bauer Bodoni Didot Clarendon Rockwell Serifa Frankiln Gothic News Gothic Helvetica Neue Univers Futura Fruitger Copperplate Gothic * Link to comment
Member smo… Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 I think that as you learn about the history of type design certain faces are landmarks in the evolution of type. If the history is taught correctly I think most student designers pick it up along the way. One typeface to mark each major development in the appearance of type will leave you with plently. An appreciation for these typefaces needs to be established. I know students that wouldn't have a breeze about typefaces solely because lectures on type where not common enough on their course. For more contemporary type I'm sure the unicef book could be handy. If it all works out then you can test your students with this. Link to comment
Member Maj… Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Comic Sans Adobe Garamond FF Penguin Arial (BETTER DAN HELVETITA) [some shitty Gotham remix] [another shitty Gotham remix] YOUR GOODE 2 GO HERP DERP Link to comment
Member The… Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 An interesting thread from the past. (Even the question of "why dig this up from the attic -- again?" is.) I wonder if any of the original students that got limited to these 20 typefaces (*) would care to comment? (*) Uh, if the OP ever got to choose anything. A few of those lists still sound great, almost a decade later. Link to comment
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