This week we learned about typography and one of our exercises involved explaining the anatomy of type visually, using the entire alphabet (upper and lower-case). Doing this exercise has definitely helped in not only becoming aware of them, but memorizing them as well.

Using colour, I marked the following on the alphabet:

• Arm/leg
• Ascender
• Bar
• Bowl
• Cap Height
• Counter
• Descender
• Ear
• Link
• Loop
• Serif
• Shoulder
• Spine
• Spur
• Stem
• Stress
• Stroke
• Swash
• Tail
• Terminal

We had to use size 210×210 for this exercise so the image turned out quite blurry, but I guess the main point was to get acquainted with these terms and practice using the programs.

This image shows my initial work on the iPad, before I completed the exercise in Adobe Illustrator.