After being told about typography in our Graphic's week theory session, I decided to find out more about it and what it actually involved. I found this article in Creative Review and found that it went into a lot more detail and described the different ways in which typography can be used. I found it interesting that they're different types of typography, ornamental and practical. Ornamental types are used mainly for decorative purposes, they usually have certain styles to express such as a time of year or an object or being such as animals or plants. These types were mainly used in the previous centuries and since then technology has progressed. We now have digital type which can be used for practical reasons as well as ornamental ones, such as sign useage of hazard warnings by Linotype's Warning Pi. Even though now typography can be done digitally, it still takes a lot of time, patience and skill to perfect.
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