TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Wed Nov 20 11:55:44 EST 2024
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Fabula
[Sue Walker]
The Fabula typeface was originally designed as a screen font as part of a project that produced software to enable children and teachers to produce bilingual story books. Since then, changes have been made to its design and it is now, additionally, a font suitable for titling and text setting in large sizes. Fabula was designed by a team led by Sue Walker that included Conrad Taylor, Vincent Connare, Gerry Leonidas and José Scaglione. Sue writes: It has been used in a series of tests designed to find out what children in year 2 think about typefaces in the books they read. They descibed Fabula as 'clear, so you can see it properly'; 'normal'; 'like an ordinary book'. Stylistically, Fabula has long ascenders and descenders (to help identify the word shapes), an informal feel, rounded terminals, a rounded e, a clear distinction between characters that might be easily confused, such as the (a, o) pair and the (l, 1) pair. Fabula 1 has a double storey a. Fabula 2 has a single storey a. |
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file name: Sue Walker Vince Connare Jose Scaglione Conrad Taylor Gerry Leonidas Fabula1
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