Curiosities and things to know about typography

- coca-cola logo it was not created from a font but from a script

- The ideal amount of words per line It should be twelve words, and it is not advisable that it be less than eight and should not exceed sixteen. What it does is it must have between forty and sixty characters per line. When you model textbooks or novels, it is difficult to count the number of letters you put in each one, hehe!

- A line spacing disproportionate causes the same line to be read twice.

- The fountain Helvetica was designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, and was the only typography used by the Swiss typographic movement for a period of time.

- The typography Windsor Light Condensed It has been used in almost all its variants by the famous film director Woody AllenYou can see it in his movies and in his books.

- Claude Garamond, the creator of the font that bears his name, like the great artists died at the age of 81 in poverty while his creation has become a design staple in later times.

- Do you know that there is a documentary film about Helvetica typography? If you are interested in seeing it, you can find out at this link.

- To find the interline appropriate in points, divide the measure of the line in circles by the body size in points.

- The font currently used by Apple is a variation of the Adobe myriad.

- For the newspaper headlines and subtitles The so-called Fibonacci progression is used (created by its author around the year 1.200), which consists of a numerical sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers.

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