Poster short abstract:

The poster is meant to show how typefaces have taken on various forms, not only due to different methods and tools but also because new ideas and values play a part in a process that is hard to grasp unless we look back in time, put things in context and realize that all is dependent upon change.

Poster long abstract:

The poster is meant to show how typefaces have taken on various forms, not only due to different methods and tools but also because new ideas and values play a part in a process that is hard to grasp unless we look back in time, put things in context and realize that all is dependent upon change. The slow evolution of typefaces is put in historical context in a timeline that shows their use in few lawbooks from the beginning of the literary era in Iceland. The aim is to examine how the use and evolution of typefaces has left its mark on books. By designing the timeline, attention is drawn to different shapes of typefaces, their distinctive features at each time, their type names and when they were most commonly used.

The poster is a part of larger project about how to understand and re-evaluate the use and effect of typefaces, by exploring the effect that different uses of typefaces have, and examine how various symbols and typeface imagery can be understood. It is all about analysing if letters contain uncertainty in their narration by its forms rather than their sound-symbol.