Project Educate: The Typography Galleries

Welcome to the projecteducate Text Art & Typography Week!
This article features Typography and its 5 sub-categories: Calligraphy, Conceptual, Font Design, Miscellaneous &  Text-based Imagery.

What is Typography?

Description:
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, designing a type face or modifying letters.

Here is an overview over the sub-categories for Typography:

Calligraphy

Description:
Calligraphy depicts self-drawn characters or signs in an artistic and skillful manner, imitating traditional tools.

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Digital Calligraphy imitates the use of traditional tools such as nib, pen, quill or brush to create text. It is most widely known and still practiced in its Japanese, Chinese and Arabic form. But it is also a western art form.
To learn more about Calligraphy read the Wikipedia article.
The main point of Digital Calligraphy is to create text art based on your illustrative skill and it is not based on existing fonts.

Conceptual

Description:
Artistically displayed text with the main focus on its message.



The main focus of this category is art with a typed out message. It can be a quote, fact or statement about politics, emotions or life. It is probably the most popular category since it is straightforward and easy to understand. Sometimes photos, vectors, 3D renders or drawings are included to underline the meaning. The main focus however is the text.

Font Design

Description:
Imagery with the only purpose of presenting a self-made font. The font itself is the artwork and is displayed in a neutral and technical manner.



Fonts can be created from anything from simple shapes or complicated illustrations. However not all fonts are avaiable for download, either because of copyright issues or simply because the font was never turned into a usable font format. This category is for font specimen of self-made fonts only. A specimen contains all the letters of a font in a non-illustrative manner.

Miscellaneous

Description:
Typography containing different styles and techniques.

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Here goes basically anything that doesnt fit to the other categories. This can be illustrations of single words, letters or names. If the main focus of your text art is the visual aspect and not the message, this is where it goes.

Text-based Imagery

Description:
Pieces in which type is used as a minor tool to create an image. The readable content of the visual is less important than the overall look of the piece.

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This category is dedicated to images created using text or types. This has become a popular form of text art throughout the last years. The main message of this art is delivered through the image, not necessarily in the text. The text used to create the image can either be an existing font or self-made letters. The image can be anything from a portrait, object, scene or landscape.

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