Chapter 6

Chapter 6 is mostly about background information about the systems of professional disciplines and languages for typographers. The book started, as it always does, with the primer and the assortment of typographical information, I always lover these, because they give really good examples to their subject matter. Continuing further in the chapter, there is a segment for measurement systems. Like the name implies, it goes over all of the measurement systems in typography. A lot of these where covered in Joe’s advanced typography class, but it was a good refresher. Alongside the beginning of this chapter, there was aa really cool image of letters that where made out of overlapping shapes. I really enjoyed that, because I thought it was interesting to look at as a visual. The text starts further elaborating different measurements for different situations. There were many sub-categories just for sections of text. It went into greater detail talking about the differences in typefaces, which was something that was covered before. Continuing through the chapter, there was a section for classes, nomenclature, and name calling. This chapter wasn’t what I was expecting. This section was all about classifications and their associate names. There was a part that was all about the different classifications of a letter. This was also something that we wen’t over in advance typography, but it was nice to see that I remembered most f this information. All in all, this was a good end t the book. It went over a lot of what we’ve seen, but the book gave a more elaborate explanation. This will definitely be a book that I keep in my repertoire for a long time.