A photo of a teacher showing some pieces of paper with text on a wall and talking about different calligraphy stiles.
A photo showing papers with different styles of text, glued to the wall.
A photo of a teacher talking to the students while they draw different typographical letters.

Quarto Giorno: Clough’s Rules of Type

May 31 2013

Photos: Esther Ro Scofield

James Clough’s second workshop day was devoted entirely to making classical letters, based on Bodoni and Garamond, by hand. Then developing interpretations of the letters using the classical proportions into custom types and typography. Always insightful, building faces by hand is one step closer to the roots of this lingua franca.

 

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