Week 2 . Compare and Contrast Fonts

Comparing and Contrasting Fonts

Georgia : Courier New : Times New Roman

The first thing to notice about these three fonts together is that Georgia and Times New Roman have a bit more in common compared to Courier New. Courier New is more of a typewriter font, and in being so it has a slight breather in between letters. It has monospacing between the letters. Georgia and Times New Roman are fonts that are close knit to one another having little space in between each other. The similarities shared in all of the fonts can be small things, like how most letters share having eyes within the "e"s, cross strokes on the "r"s and "a"s, and small descender lines for the "g"s, "j"s and "q"s.

Times New Roman and Georgia are also common because they are thicker in body, and can be described to be more of a slab serif compared to being a monospaced font.


Impact : Arial : Verdana

All three fonts share similarities with one another- a main one being that they are all relatively san serif. The major difference however is that Impact is a very condensed font. It does not have much space in between the letters, and crowds itself. Although there is not much space between Arial and Verdana, they are a lot more legible than Impact. Since the font is sans serif, there are no dramatic serifs, brackets, or even terminals. What is interesting is that as a regular text, Impact is very bold. When it is bold, it's increasingly hard to even recognize. The spacing between the letters are almost none, and the boldness of the spine grow. In Arial, bolding is mostly the same. The letters are a smidge larger, but that doesn't make for much change. With Verdana, bold changes both size and also spacing between columned rows. The line-height becomes a tad taller along with change of font size.

 Georgia : Reenie Beanie : Marker Felt

The fonts Georgia, Reenie Beanie, and Marker Felt were interesting to see. For the most part, Georgia and Marker Felt are similar in terms of the different serifs, spacing, ascenders and descenders. Marker Felt is a tad thinner, and the text is only a smidge smaller. The spacing is equal, and the use of eyes and brackets are applied well. Reenie Beanie is a script text, being that it is made to look like it is handwritten. In this case, it looks more to me like a bit of chicken scratch. Because of this, it is also very small. It relates to the other texts mostly due to the various forms of crossbars within the A, cross strokes for the lower case 't's, and so on. The difference between Georgia and Marker Felt is that the x-height for Georgia is off. For example, the 'h' in the word "The" is taller than the capital T. In Marker Felt, all letters align perfectly.