Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: U0224/Tipografi I
: 2005
: 1/0
Pertemuan 9
Huruf “Sans Serif 2”
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa akan mampu :
 Menghasilkan suatu komposisi dengan
menggunakan huruf “Sans Serif”
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Outline Material
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Grotesque
Gill Sans
Helvetica
Univers
Futura
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Huruf “Sans Serif”
Fonts without the extra little tags on the letters are
called "sans serifs," which literally means, "without
wings." Some of the earliest sans serif fonts were cut in
Italy in the early 1500s.
They were popular with printers because the lack of
extra bits on the ends of the letters allowed them to print
more letters per line than the blockier and more
complicated serifs.
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“Sans Serif”
Example of “San Serif” are:
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Grotesque
Gill Sans
Helvetica
Universe
Futura
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“Helvetica”
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Born 24.12.1910 in Zurich, Switzerland, died 8.3.1980 in Zurich, Switzerland –
type designer.
Helvetica typeface developed by Max Miedinger in 1957 for the Haas’sche
Schriftgießerei type foundry of Switzerland. Its name is derived from Helvetia,
the Roman name for Switzerland. The font is based on the earlier Akzidenz
Grotesk typeface from around 1898. The typeface, originally titled HaasGrotesk, is a very clean san serif face. The typeface became extremely
popular in the 1960s, when it was widely used. In 1983, Linotype released the
Helvetica Neue (German for "New Helvetica") typeface, based on Helvetica.
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“Helvetica”
Structure of Helvetica:
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“Univers”
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Adrian Frutiger was born in 1928 at Unterseen near Interlaken, Switzerland. After
an apprenticeship as a compositor, he continued his training in type and graphics
at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule) from 1949 to 1951,
being taught by two renowned professors, Alfred Willimann and Walter Käch.
Univers is a neo-grotesque, san serif typefaces, designed by Adrian Frutiger in
1956 and released by the type foundry Deberny & Peignot in 1957.
Different weights and variations within the type family, which consists of
twenty-one typefaces in all, are designated by the use of numbers rather than
names, a system since adopted by Frutiger for other type designs.
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“Univers”
Structure of Univers:
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“Futura”
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Paul Renner – born 9.8.1878 in Wernigerode, Germany, died 25.4.1956 in
Hödingen, Germany – graphic artist, painter, type designer, author,
teacher.
First presented by the Bauer Type Foundry in 1928, Futura is commonly considered the major
typeface development to come out of the Constructivist orientation of the Bauhaus.movement
in Germany. Paul Renner (type designer, painter, author and teacher) sketched the original
drawings and based them loosely on the simple forms of circle, triangle and square. The
design office at Bauer assisted him in turning these geometric forms into a sturdy, functioning
type family, and over time, Renner made changes to make the Futura fonts even more legible.
Its long ascenders and descenders benefit from generous line spacing. The range of weights
and styles make it a versatile family. Futura is timelessly modern; in 1928 it was striking,
tasteful, radical - and today it continues to be a popular typographic choice to express
strength, elegance, and conceptual clarity.
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“Futura”
Structure of Futura:
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Summary
Sans Serif typefaces function well for the setting of
extended text, though they do not as a rule provide
for very economical setting because most have a
lower x-height than the Grotesques.
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