E com Typography project

The Project

We were assigned a project where we were required to take our name and label certain parts of the text. As an example, the inside of an O would be labeled a counter. A counter is a fully or partially enclosed part of a letter. We had to label at least 10. 

My Project

We were required to label, the cap height, X height and baseline. I also labeled an ascender, a counter, an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a diagonal stroke, an aperture, a stem, a final, a serif, an arm, and finally a bowl. 

The Experience

It was interesting studying text and something I never thought I would ever do before this. I learned a lot about text during the time we studied text, especially names of text like comic sans, and how many people feel about it.