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New Swiss road signs near Lugano use the typeface ASTRA-Frutiger.. Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger.It is the text version of Frutiger's earlier typeface Roissy, commissioned in 1970/71 [6] by the newly built Charles de Gaulle Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system, which itself was based on Concorde, a font Frutiger ...
The aesthetic gained popularity among Generation Z in part due to nostalgia, [6] and because it serves as a maximalist alternative to modern minimalist corporate styles such as Corporate Memphis. [3] In addition, Amanda Brennan stated that the modern interest may arise from Frutiger Aero's nature-focused imagery and optimism, corresponding to ...
Aestheticism (also known as the aesthetic movement) was an art movement in the late 19th century that valued the appearance of literature, music, fonts and the arts over their functions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Aestheticism, art should be produced to be beautiful, rather than to teach a lesson , create a parallel , or perform another didactic ...
Further breakdown of minimalist aesthetic is seen in the increase of the number of type sizes and colours of fonts. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Although punk and psychedelia embody the anti-corporate nature of their respective groups, the similarity between New Wave and the International Style has led some to label New Wave as “softer, commercialized ...
Vaporwave. Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [ 30][ 31] and became well-known in 2015. [ 32] It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, 1970s elevator music, [ 32] R&B, and lounge music ...
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing, letter spacing, and spaces between pairs of letters. [ 1] The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and ...
Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. [ 2] The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature. [ 3] It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art. [ 4][ 5]