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Didot 

small capitals are designed to match the x-height of the lowercase letters. 

Ligatures are used to connect two letters in a typeface to make them appear more seamless, common ligatures are Ls and Fs. A typeface that uses ligatures is Diotima. 

Apostrophes are used for quotes and foot marks are used to indicate measurements and time. 

Here are some of my (still in the making) designs for my Didot posters 

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                                                  Didot 

Serif
Firmin Didot
1781
Modern
roman,italic and bold

Modern classification- style developed in the late 18th century that is characterized by high contrast between thick and thin strokes and flat hairline serifs.

High contrast
Abrupt serifs
vertical axis
horizontal stress
small aperture

Old Style: The roman typefaces of the fifteenth century emulated classic calligraphy. Sabon, Bembo, and Garamond are examples of Old Style.
Transitional:Sharper serifs and more vertical axis. Examples: Baskerville, Bookman, and Clearface.
Modern: Designed in the late 18th century and are radically abstract, sharp contrast. Examples: Bodoni, Didot and Ambroise.
Slab Serif: Bold and decorative introduced in the 19th century. Ex: Clarendon, Gaspar and Josefin.
San Serif: Common in the 20th century has humanist characteristics. Ex: Gill Sans, Bebas and Intel.
The main diagonal portion of a letterform such as in N, M, or Y is the stroke.
 An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes is the axis. For typefaces that exhibit changes in the thickness of curved strokes, the inclination of the axis of the lowercase o is used to measure the angle of stress.
Small Caps: are designed to match the x-height of lowercase letters.
Ligatures: Two or more letters combined into one character
Lining figures: capital letters in that they are uniform in height, and generally align with the baseline and the cap height.
Type measurements: 1 inch= 6 picas= 72 points

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I really struggled on developing a typeface on fontstruct. I was trying too hard to make everything so perfect and aligned that I ended up hating every font I had created. So I ditched the idea that my type had to look a certain way and started playing around. I created one typeface really fast and sloppily just for fun and I ended up really liking it. I reminded me of the messy, chaotic time period that was the 90's. I decided that would be my theme so I started to pull images and ideas that related to the 90's. I used images of TV static, pixelated skateboards , and Nirvana concert photos.

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