2b. Piranesi's Initials - Information Graphic

<p><em><strong>Piranesi's Initials</strong></em><strong> - Information Graphic</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>Research Type Specimens<br> </p> <p><br></p> <p><em>(Type specimens are defined as typographic design that showcases a typeface design and its use. Information graphics can in this case, both justify and explain the context for a new type design.)</em></p> <p><br></p> <p>These Initial forms were revived into an information graphic diagram to explain the content of Piranesi’s letterform ‘beliefs’ within the Graeco-Roman debate. This graphic explains Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s plate 41 Fig. II and III from <em>Le Antichità Romane</em> of 1756. Where single capital ‘E’ is highlighted with the addition of component serifs as the source of the Roman. This insight provides the potential to extend the ETRVSCA Sans font into a larger family of both serif-less and partial vestigial serif fonts within future practice-based research.<br> </p> <p><br></p> <p>The research and development of Piranesi’s Initials were explained at TypeThursday London (Cambridge) symposium on 09 May 2019. They were derived from a first edition original plate engraving of the 'ONIONIANA' letters of 1756.</p> <p><br></p> <p>ONIONIANA scan/photo: Jon Melton, emfoundry.com</p> <p><br></p> <p>Research Question(s): How will engaging in practice-based research inform the development of a new primal sans typeface, lead to new insights into the context of the serif-less letterforms of the eighteenth-century?</p> <p><br></p> <p>ARRO: <a href="https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/704761/" target="_blank">https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/704761/</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Researcher's Website: <a href="http://emfoundry.com/" target="_blank">http://emfoundry.com</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>