Tuesday, February 19, 2013
cipher or cypher (ˈsaɪfə) | |
— n | |
1. | a method of secret writing using substitution or transposition of letters according to a key |
2. | a secret message |
3. | the key to a secret message |
4. | an obsolete name for zero |
5. | any of the Arabic numerals (0, 1, 2, 3, etc, to 9) or the Arabic system of numbering as a whole |
6. | a person or thing of no importance; nonentity |
7. | a design consisting of interwoven letters; monogram |
8. | music a defect in an organ resulting in the continuous sounding of a pipe, the key of which has notbeen depressed |
— vb | |
9. | to put (a message) into secret writing |
10. | ( intr ) (of an organ pipe) to sound without having the appropriate key depressed |
11. | rare to perform (a calculation) arithmetically |
[C14: from Old French cifre zero, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic sifr zero, empty] | |
cypher or cypher |
Three versions of possible templates to use for Cypher. For the header I went for a logo aesthetic. The fonts used were Quilt, Partite Display upper and lower case, and a computer type font. I ended up choosing the combination of Partite Display and Quilt because I tend to favor the whimsical side of type :)
I wanted to keep the layout simple and play around with the body text. Right now I am using a combination of courier, cantarell and script font.
"When we experience disappointment with the relationship with letters let's not be afraid to do what come naturally to us: Let's draw."
Graphis Typography 1 (1994)
Gerard Huerta
Graphis Typography 1 (1994)
Gerard Huerta
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