miller_gothicanalysis_1

This image is an analysis of the Gothic typeface from the Corona font. Instead of analyzing multiple features of the letters, I focused on the stress of the font. Although the vertical elements of the letters are straight up and down, the strokes connecting the vertical elements are angled, creating a stress on the letters, especially the counters of O's, A's, and G's. I started by taking a diagonal across the counter of an O, and then I aligned another letter's vertical with that diagonal. I repeated the process while scaling the letters and changing the value and opacity. The repetition of this process creates a spiral, whose tangents are the stress lines of the letters that create it.