Is leading good?

I know that leading comes from the days of letterpress and movable type but I would like to find out if manually altering leading is still applicable in todays digital age. If so then I would say that leading is good. I need to research how leading (a very hand made aspect of typography) is used today and how much freedom we have with it.

Are majuscule and minuscule characters good?

I prefer to read text in sentence case, and get annoyed when people continuously write in lower or upper case. I think majuscule and minuscule are good, but in the right context. I need to research to find out why we write in sentence case and why it is good. Also I would like to find out if other people have a different view to me. Surely the one which would be good in this case would be the case which is most legible to read.

Is 3D typography good?

For this project I am focusing on the hand crafted 3D typography (making letterforms from objects) and environmental typography, the letterforms that are present without being forced to be there (such as a hinge looking like the letter L). I love digital but do feel that we rely on it too much and have forgotten about the asthetics of reality. With digital work getting better and better sometimes I wonder, why not just go out and do it for real?

I feel 3D typography is good as it expresses reality. It is a much more human thing and we can touch and feel it, we can know it is real. Currently my view of some 3D typography is that it is good because it is of a high quality. I need to specify exactally what about 3d Type is of high quality and if it has a positive impact on people, thus it is good.

Basics Design:Typography

Here is an example of majuscule and minuscule text in design. Both examples and previous posts MAJUSCULE, minuscule, German nouns and Spacing have been taken from 'Basics Design: Typography' by Ambrose and Harris.

Majuscule text design

Minuscule text design

Spacing

As lower case letters tend to flow into one another it is considered bad typographical practise to letterspace themas this makes the text more difficult to read. Capitals depend less on each other, and so we are therefore more used to viewing and reading them with space in place.

S P A C I N G

s p a c i n g

I can definitely read the majuscule letters easier than the minuscule letters in this case.

German nouns

Certain languages can look uncomfortable when set in Roman. German for example uses initial capital letters at the start of written nouns. This disrupts the scanning motion of the eye.

"I went to the Shop in my Car to buy Food, a Book and a Video."

minuscule

lowercase letters were developed by alcuin in the 8th century, these allowed text to be divided into sentences and paragraphs by beginning the first word of a sentence with a capital letter.