All letterforms are composed of twenty-one distinct parts.Most commonly, these parts combine to form the characters of our alphabet.Type is Art allows for experimentation beyond this typical character set. Suzanne Cerja, Silo Design I was not always a “typography nerd.” Maybe by some standards I’m still not. There is a point in my career that I can recall fairly vividly as the period when my eyes opened a bit more to the beauty and precision of the typographical form. This was the more or less at the moment when I was introduced to “The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst, a book which most graphic designers would consider the gold standard of typography. Bringhurst delves into the history, forms, and […]