When we talk about typography, what are we talking about?
当我们在讨论文字排印时,我们在讨论什么?
This small lecture is presented to the internal design team of GitCafé from me as their design intern and typography consultant.
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word and image word is image image as word word-image
1 字与形 2 字是形 3 形即字 4 字形
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word and image
1 字与形
Of all the achievements of
the human mind, the birth
of the alphabet is the most
momentous.
在人类思想的成就中,以字母之诞生最为惊天动地。
Frederic Goudy
弗雷德里克·高迪
*Frederic?W.?Goudy?(1865Ⅹ1947)?曧銊豜叄鉢??壎嶗??斊鑇咲、
骼曧銊蹺訅醑?鲲艊叄鉢??壎?酽羠?叄 122 潎、魳謖艊藥愥醮骼讜謖艊
Goudy?Old?Style 飨倀 Copperplate?Gothic、1920Ⅹ1947 妘??骼惔麇
賣昤?鯆鄐駡誒?(Lanston?Monotype)?艊頯梮岄苳、
謾傿謖踵 Bertha?曧酽瀕戹叄墡、跏鳏鑇桹酽厸?謖踵 Frederic?T.?Goudy、
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word is image
2 字是形
hamburgerfonstivLucida Blackletter
Carolingian?Minuscule ?則鈵楁啢釀鉢
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word is image
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约翰福音开场白
熱靕驅賣鄽 (Book?of?Kells)?粷鶜俋餚蹕霎?、
惛酾囑旝
In?principio?erat?
Verbum,?et?Verbum?
erat?apud?Deum,?et?
Deus erat Verbum.
跤旝?旝
俒設桹????
?醮蜶讜鮪???
道就是神、
餚旝?旝
In?the?beginning?was?
the?Word,?and?the?
Word?was?with?God,?
and?the?Word was God.
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hamburgerfonstivMVB Verdigris Big
Renaissance?Roman ?旝頯侟蠻鈵?鉢
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双语圣咏集
梪霎彾鲋 1642Ⅹ1643 妘?藥塒惛酾旝嶗熴旝?踵熴蹺艎謚鍖壽、
鮒嶁? (Psalter) 曧敒嫚▕萒斊?銊? (Psalms) 艊???貶鲱藥塒暀? 。
鮒鳏艊蝜?嶗鮒潣訵?嫮媀?踵靕羾?曧跫隊鳏佖? 蝜鶯牆誤艊??旝梪、
呅髦侸羾棈哱躐鳏?墡鷹。釀鄽鳏嶗抴翍壎壽慘?羮旿倹雲???赗銊、
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旝頯侟蠻頌艊則鈵楁啢釀鉢
詵飨酽觠釀呝?襹觠賛鍖蓪?霎釀?姪濱
旝頯侟蠻暚梕艊昦鈵?鉢
? 鄡???詆鎢?襹觠鄫鍖??霎釀?姪?
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3 形即字
We cannot alter the essential shape of a
single letter without at the same time
destroying the familiar printed face of our
language, and thereby rendering it useless.
如果改变一个字母的基础形态,我们语言的印刷样貌就将
必然改变,那这个字母就没用了。
Jan Tschichold
扬·奇肖尔德
*Jan?Tschichold?(1902Ⅹ1974)?曧孭蹺叄鉢??壎。霎豜??壎嶗??斊鑇咲、
骼鲋 1923 妘鎢駱粷魍踽躏??艊?鬫?妛僨 魳謖艊〔昦叄鉢戹棧〕(Die?Neue?
Typographie) 酽霎、謾跤篞砮恊繩?鑫晹 鄡叄鉢侳艊謾骼叄鉢蟢貙?妛鞏啂
?唻蠙穼???、?霎讜暚?漛薶襫飨醭讜叄誑。叄?棾婠襫??嗃漛艊會熴、
1933 妘 3 桸?鄐贙苼跫俒墮恜咲?妘姌晑張?嬔緤佖、
躐謚骼?踵粷魍踽躏??俒?発??桪敒螻荁饅??妛?羮 鄡鉢、鮪 1947Ⅹ
1949 妘踽慁?? 500 侸梪麟?霎豜?穼媀熕羮靧鞔、骼艊 酛 鄡鉢 Sabon 曧
啨桹艊镾侽讜暚悶咷 Linotype 嶗鯆鄐?戹梽跏倧跀酛艊叄鉢、
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image as word
3 形即字
We cannot alter the essential shape of a
single letter without at the same time
destroying the familiar printed face of our
language, and thereby rendering it useless.
如果改变一个字母的基础形态,我们语言的印刷样貌就将
必然改变,那这个字母就没用了。
Jan Tschichold
扬·奇肖尔德
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word-image
4 字形
Letters are things, not pictures
of things […] It’s clear that for any
letter there’s some sort of norm.
字母是东西,不是东西的图像……显而易见,
每一个字母都有它的某种规范。
Eric Gill
埃里克·吉尔
*Eric?Gill?(1882Ⅹ1940)?曧餚豜叄鉢??壎。贖蓴鷹嶗?贖咲、
骼壎鞲 Edward?Johnston?愛斣鰱?叄鉢 Johnston 艊??鍎?彾踵叄鉢
??壎、?澑躐侳?翽醣俋?蓴贖。犛?嶗?贖慘閔、骼艊魳謖叄鉢藥愥
Perpetua。Gill?Sans 嶗 Joanna?謚鍎飨骼艊偔簍噯謖、魳桹〔?旝叄戹棧〕?
(An?Essay?on?Typography)、
Gill敡犗彾屟?桪僨羠凗侳嵔?醮骼艊僜傼。跏跣梥彾妘偔簍嶗筯僨羠?屟饅跀、
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word-image
4 字形
Letters are things, not pictures
of things […] It’s clear that for any
letter there’s some sort of norm.
字母是东西,不是东西的图像……显而易见,
每一个字母都有它的某种规范。
Eric Gill
埃里克·吉尔
*Eric?Gill?(1882Ⅹ1940)?曧餚豜叄鉢??壎。贖蓴鷹嶗?贖咲、
骼壎鞲 Edward?Johnston?愛斣鰱?叄鉢 Johnston 艊??鍎?彾踵叄鉢
??壎、?澑躐侳?翽醣俋?蓴贖。犛?嶗?贖慘閔、骼艊魳謖叄鉢藥愥
Perpetua。Gill?Sans 嶗 Joanna?謚鍎飨骼艊偔簍噯謖、魳桹〔?旝叄戹棧〕?
(An?Essay?on?Typography)、
Gill敡犗彾屟?桪僨羠凗侳嵔?醮骼艊僜傼。跏跣梥彾妘偔簍嶗筯僨羠?屟饅跀、
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word-image
4 字形
Letters are things, not pictures
of things […] It’s clear that for any
letter there’s some sort of norm.
字母是东西,不是东西的图像……显而易见,
每一个字母都有它的某种规范。
Eric Gill
埃里克·吉尔
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word-image
4 字形
Letters are things, not pictures
of things […] It’s clear that for any
letter there’s some sort of norm.pictorial
图形的规范。
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There are no images in digital
fonts, only instructions which are
dependent on, or interpreted by,
rendering devices.
在数码字体里没有形,只有电脑指令。这些指令
依赖于渲染器,或者说是渲染器在解读它们。
Nick Shinn
*Nick?Shinn?(1952Ⅹ)?曧餚蹺?鎢愽俋豜叄鉢??壎、
叄鉢慘閔桪鮪 FontShop 僨綈、1999 妘?襫靕墰艊叄鉢駡誒 ShinnType、
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4 字形
↑ ?囑霎釀 → 暚?
a a a aa aBlackletter Garalde Transitional?/?Modern Grotesk Neo-Grotesk Humanist
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It’s almost impossible to
look and read at the same
time: they are different
actions.
同时观看和阅读是不可能的——它们是不同的行为。
Gerard Unger
*Gerard?Unger?(1942Ⅹ)?曧駻賣豜叄鉢??壎嶗妕???壎、
鮪 1967 妘俋叧瀸趵謚?駱 Total?Design??靧 Enschedé 霎嗙墡慘?謚彾
踵靕羾??壎、骼踽?踵熱穼窹??呺羮廟旝叄鉢?妛鮪侸忞俋叧斊戦旝叄
??、魳謖叄鉢藥愥 Gulliver 嶗 Coranto、
魍 魳慘踵〔鮪鄴??暚〕(While?You?Are?Reading)?餚?鮪 2006 妘羾
Mark?Batty?Publisher 熱穼、
吉拉德·安葛
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When we talk about typography,
we are talking about legible,
purposeful, consensus-driven
word-images that interact with
and thus flavor meaning.
当我们在讨论文字排印时,我们
在讨论的是可读的、目的明确的、
符合大众共识的字形4 4
。它与意义
互动,进而赋意义以风味。