Matakuliah
Tahun
: U0443/Tipografi I
: 2008
Pertemuan 4
Identitas Huruf “Serif-Transitional”
LearningOutcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa akan mampu :
Mendesain suatu komposisi dengan menggunakan
huruf “Serif-Transitional”.
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OutlineMaterial
 Baskerville
 Janson
 Caslon
 Caledonia
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“Serif-Transitional”
Example of “Serif-Transitional” are :
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Baskerville
Janson
Caslon
Caledonia
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03. Caslon
William Caslon
Born 1692 in Cradley, Worcestershire, England, died 1766 in Bethnal Green, England – engraver, type
founder, type designer.
Caslon, William, English type designer, b. Worcestershire. He worked first in London as an engraver of gunlocks,
then set up his own foundry in 1716. Caslon's individual letters are less impressive than those of Baskerville
and Giambattista Bodoni, but their regularity, legibility, and sensitive proportions constituted a remarkable
achievement in design. His typefaces were used for most important printed works from c.1740 to c.1800. One
such example is the first printed version of the United States Declaration of Independence. Some Caslon types
are still in use.
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03. Caslon
Structure of Caslon
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04. Caledonia
William A. Dwiggins
Born 19. 6. 1880 in Martinsville, USA, died 25. 12. 1956 in
Hingham, Massachusetts, USA – type designer, printer,
typographer, graphic designer – studied at the Frank
Holme School of Illustration in Chicago under Frederic W.
Goudy.
William A. Dwiggins designed Caledonia for Linotype in 1939. The Bulmer types gave Caledonia “the liveliness of
action the quality is in the curves, the way they get away from the straight stems with a calligraphic flick, and in the
nervous angle on the underside of the arches as they descend to the right.” The result, Caledonia (the Latin name for
Scotland), is one of the most widely used book types of all time. In the late 1980s, Linotype released New Caledonia,
removing some of the constraints placed on the original design when it was first produced in metal and augmenting the
range of weights for the typeface.
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04. Caledonia
Structure of Caledonia
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Summary
The Transitionals are also characterized by a more dramatic variation in
stroke width –a controversial development that led to charges of
impaired legibility & letters too bright to read comfortably.
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