Alegreya Analysis
Design Discourse
Event 2
This essay will discuss the Alegreya typographic design by identifying, describing, analyzing and evaluating its different elements.
The Alegreya font is designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica and was originally intended for literature. It is one of the top fourteen text type systems and was one of fifty-three Fonts of the Decade in 2011 at the ATypl Letter2 competition.
Alegreya is without a doubt a serif typeface as can be seen by the serifs on most of the glyphs in this character set. The cap-height seems to undershoot the ascender line, this might be because of the glyph "A" as making this glyph bigger would make the composition of this word look off balance. The mean-line and baseline are both adhered to with ascenders and de-senders only where necessary, although the bowl of the "g" glyph floats above the base-line and its loop starts on the base-line itself. The kerning between the first two glyphs seems to be built into the typeface and makes for a very pleasing balance of the entire word for the eye. By making this observation it is safe to say that this is not a monospace typeface. The font family includes italic, bold and black, with just as much care put into the attention to detail in the italic design as the roman. As for the bold, the weights are strong, but the black weights are really experimental for this particular genre.
This design is very successful as one would notice by looking at its ultimate features named above. Crispness is provided to the page while referring to the calligraphic letter, not as a literal analysis, but rather in a fashionable typographic language. It conveys a vibrant and varied rhythm that simplifies the reading of long texts for which the design, in its essence, was intended.
Event 2
This essay will discuss the Alegreya typographic design by identifying, describing, analyzing and evaluating its different elements.
The Alegreya font is designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica and was originally intended for literature. It is one of the top fourteen text type systems and was one of fifty-three Fonts of the Decade in 2011 at the ATypl Letter2 competition.
Alegreya is without a doubt a serif typeface as can be seen by the serifs on most of the glyphs in this character set. The cap-height seems to undershoot the ascender line, this might be because of the glyph "A" as making this glyph bigger would make the composition of this word look off balance. The mean-line and baseline are both adhered to with ascenders and de-senders only where necessary, although the bowl of the "g" glyph floats above the base-line and its loop starts on the base-line itself. The kerning between the first two glyphs seems to be built into the typeface and makes for a very pleasing balance of the entire word for the eye. By making this observation it is safe to say that this is not a monospace typeface. The font family includes italic, bold and black, with just as much care put into the attention to detail in the italic design as the roman. As for the bold, the weights are strong, but the black weights are really experimental for this particular genre.
This design is very successful as one would notice by looking at its ultimate features named above. Crispness is provided to the page while referring to the calligraphic letter, not as a literal analysis, but rather in a fashionable typographic language. It conveys a vibrant and varied rhythm that simplifies the reading of long texts for which the design, in its essence, was intended.