Wall­pa­per : Font Anatomy

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For some time I have tried to get a reli­able infor­ma­tion about the indi­vid­ual parts of the char­ac­ters of the alpha­bet. The anatomy of type if you like. It was not so easy to find online. Still I found some and then some in var­i­ous books.

The prob­lem how­ever is I did not find any one source I was fully sat­is­fied with. Each one had some names miss­ing which the oth­ers had and so on..

I col­lected all this info together and put in one as com­plete as I could. A sec­ond prob­lem was to find a type­face that included every­thing. I finally gave up. It’s really hard to squeeze every­thing in. The ones that seemed to fit the best like Times for instance I didn’t want to use and some I wanted to use didn’t have all the major part names.

I finally decided to use a two beau­ti­ful and also free fonts, Tallys and Museo by Jos Buiv­enga. Some of the def­i­n­i­tions I put in are maybe on the bor­der­line, but not seri­ously I think. Take for instance a look at the cross­bar in the ffi-ligature. The name there is Cross­bar or Hair­line. In this font it’s not quite a hair­line but closer to a cross­bar. Also the ter­mi­nal drop on the r. I am tak­ing a lit­tle chance there – the def­i­n­i­tion prob­a­bly has more of a drop form in mind.

Another lit­tle one: Where the def­i­n­i­tions are two lines they are read from top down and then to right. This is to keep the def­i­n­i­tions in columns and not to spread them directly over each let­ter. See, like the g in Typog­ra­phy; Loop refers to the g but Drop to next let­ter, r. I hope it is not too confusing.

Finally: Be my guest and down­load this Anatomy of Type in the form of a wall­pa­per or desk­top pic­ture which you can keep and use on your com­puter. Free, of course. I trust that you tell every­one where you got it.

You can down­load it here: Font Anatomy Wallpaper

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