Nielsen Type: MY FONT

My Font Analysis

By: Porter Nielsen

       I chose the “YourFonts” link to create my font because it was thorough and easy to use.  I always write in all capitals, and never use lowercase letters.  If I want to differentiate between lower and uppercase letters I simply make the letters that need to be capitalized slightly larger than the rest of the letters in the sentence. To me, this font is professional yet human.  The writing is obviously done by a living breathing person yet it’s neat, orderly and appropriate for professional manners.  It’s also easier to write clearly when using all capitals, and that’s the main reason I adopted the all-caps style back in middle school.  Serifs are more appropriate in computer designed font, few people including myself have the time to pretty up their font with serifs.  I think my font is more symmetrical than asymmetrical because I like neatness in my writing and symmetry is one of the best ways to establish neatness.  I think my font most closely resembles humanistic design because of the “subtle differences between thin and thick lines”.  Of course I just think that it most closely resembles, really it’s quite different but out of the three categories I’d place my font in the Old Style or Humanistic Typeface.

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