- ✔ Next, you will present a single lowercase letterform of your choice and identify the aspects of its anatomy that you learned in the lecture. Your letter could be x, y, z, p, or something else. Perhaps an initial? Find a letterform in a typeface that really interests you. Do not use a script letterform for this piece.
- ✔ Enlarge the letter of your choice to a workable size and apply it to a grid.
- ✔ Mark it up with labels to explain the elements of typography you see. Imagine you are diagramming the letter to explain its component parts to your youngest nephew, for example. The elements you might illustrate include baseline, descender, ascender, x-height, arm, ear, stem, counter, and so on as it applies to your chosen letter.
- ✔ Scan or take a digital photograph of your results. Save your work as a PDF or JPEG file.
- ✔ Before you begin, refresh your memory on the essential vocabulary of typography with the following Review Kit:
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