FI:P084 Fonts of Type and Calligraphy - Course Information

P084 Fonts of Type and Calligraphy I

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Vítězslav Švalbach (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Vítězslav Švalbach

Prerequisites

Subject of Letter, Typografy and Graphic Design resquires a creativity as well as respect of character of these subjects including a manual work according to a set task.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)

Syllabus

• Terminology.
• Type system.
• Type technology (influence of a tool and a material to a shape of a type).
• Style (relations between era aesthetics and a type morphology).
• Type qualification. Type sections.
• Type families. Type groups.
• Distinctive type faces. Capitals and lower-case letters.
• Type sample book. Spacing.
• Lower-case letters arrangement. Type unit composition.
• Placing of letters in a surface. Letters democratization.

Language of instruction

Czech

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1997, recent)
  
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