The fishtail and curved serifs on certain characters also introduces a unique quirkiness, making SomaSlab stand out alongside most classic slab serif fonts. Some alternative characters are available too, together with an extended Latin glyph set, allowing users a variable choice and great versatility for text settings.
A typeface that incorporates small details on the ends of many strokes called "serifs".
They are generally used in newspapers, magazines and books because this type of design tends to read better in long bodies of text.
Reflect handwriting, with letters that appear joined. In today's digital world,Script fonts are only used sporadically, when a personal, private or emotional feeling needs to be added to the text.
Are commonly classified into the following categories: Blackletter, Casual or Formal.
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. They are still popular because the strong visual imprint that typewriters still have in our culture.
Is collection of letters, numbers, symbols and punctuation marks designed with stylistic unity, such as Futura or Gil Sans.
Type faces can be classified into 3 basic categories: Serif, Sans serif or Script.
Historically a font referred to any size or style variant of a handset typeface, such as 12-point Garamond. With digital publishing, scalable type made the specific size less pertinent and was omitted in the description of a font.
The most common varieties in a family are: Roman, Italic, light, Boldface, Condensed and Extended.
Extended type families emerged in the 1900s, and some typefaces have a large number of variations, such as Univers or Taz III (as seen on the lower left image).
A Roman font is the basic, unaltered design of a typeface.
Italics use an angled axis. Serif Italics are calligraphic in form.
Sans-serif typefaces that have been slanted instead of redrawn on a new axis are referred to as Oblique.
Light fonts are thinner versions of Roman fonts and sometimes are also drawn as
Ultra light font , constructed of hair line strokes.
Boldface fonts can range from medium to semibold, bold, black or poster.
They are based on Roman, but constructed from wider strokes.
A Condensed font is reduced in width and can be useful in a tight-fitting column of text.
Extended fonts are wider than the Roman version and are often used for headlines and to create emphasis.
Somar Rounded is an extension of Somar Sans font family. Its creation process was inspired by the need to make a rounded font that doesn't provoke a childish impression and remains functional in small spaces.
For the Latin version, we relied on the old Latin grotesque and rounded styles. While in the Arabic version, the Kufi style was the source of inspiration. The fusion of both styles yielded a holistic type system.
Suzuki lives in Minami Soma, which catapulted into the headlines after the earthquake when its mayor, Katsunobu Sakurai, appealed for help via YouTube. Having suffered tsunami damage, the town also lost electricity and running water. Crippled trainlines and a chronic lack of petrol left it almost completely cut off, with dwindling supplies of food, water and other daily necessities. To top it all off, Minami Soma was right in the middle of the 20-30km zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and residents were urged by the government to stay indoors.
Yet there are also signs of the triple catastrophe that rocked the town in March. In the centre of town there are but whispers, such as the dead sunflowers, planted in the hope that they might absorb radioactive particles:
But if there was a sharp contrast between the centre of the town and its edges, the attitudes of the people I met were even more opposed- ranging from the distrustful and scared to the assured and rational, and even completely unperturbed.
As the Muratas pointed out, this map shows the arbitrariness of the 20 km exclusion zone. The areas with the highest concentration of radioactivity (in pink and orange) are outside of the zone- while some of the green and blue areas are within it. Rainfall, wind patterns and topographical features, such as valleys where rain can accumulate, have determined the radioactive contamination of the landscape, and as such it does not respect such tidy delineations.
Despite their lack of faith in official efforts, the Muratas were unusually confident that Fukushima land would be farmable within a few years, if not sooner. They pointed excitedly to fields that had been newly contaminated, right next to the exclusion border, and said they were not taking much care with where their food came from. Mrs. Murata in particular was emphatic that anyone who had a firm grasp of the scientific facts would not be worried. She gave several reasons for her optimism:
Secondly, the ratio of cesium 137 (half life of 30 years) to cesium 134 (half life of 2 years) was about 2:1 in Chernobyl, but is more like 2:7 in Fukushima. This means that much of the cesium will decay within just two years. Of course, half will still remain, as will the majority of cesium 137, but it will be significantly less than Chernobyl.
The salesroom was covered with maps, graphs and pamphlets on radiation. Apparently many people were coming in for advice, knowing that the Muratas were keeping abreast of the scientific facts- but Mrs. Murata was beginning to despair of their ignorance.
Considering the lack of absolute information, however, it might be reasonable for some to worry. One person who is distrustful of the statistics is Hideki Sugi, who works at a company that subcontracts nuclear workers, and has been to the plant several times. He is from Odaka, a town within the evacuation zone, but he fled to Niigata on the 12th when he saw TEPCO officials wearing overalls on the television.
I also spoke to her gynaecologist, Kyohei Takahashi, who had branched out to general health checks and helped with decontamination efforts after the quake. Despite the conventional message that children were more vulnerable to radiation, Takahashi emphasised that their metabolisms were faster than that of adults, and much of the radioactive particles they take in pass through as waste. He added that mothers have little to worry about, but should take some care over the provenance of their food.
And yet, as the film Land of Oblivion showed, radiation can seep through your body, leaving you infertile and making your hair come out in clumps. With less than clear statistics on exposure from that disaster, it sometimes feels like Japan is embarking on an enormous national experiment, the results of which will only be clear years from now.
Earlier this month, I took my family and in-laws to Minamisoma, on the north edge of the exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi, to visit our relatives there. Needless to say, much of the conversation was about the accident. Our relatives run a 4-generation-old tofu making company. One cousin owns a tire dealership near Harunomachi Station.
Text description provided by the architects. Project X22 is an amalgamation of all the experimental alternative design techniques like filler slabs, lime plaster, handmade cement tiles, courtyards, skylights, vertical gardens, various brick bonding such as rat trap bond, dogtooth bond, basket weave bond, stack bond, brick jail, rain collector, etc. This project is for a family of seven members of three generations which is a collective reflection of both these users and the architect's idea of having a house that has hand-crafted age-old techniques, a contemporary look and feel with traditional and locally available materials. Each and every part of this project like the doors, Washbasins, Rain drains, Windowsills etc. has a customized design based on the user habits and behaviors.
The building is oriented east with a longer facade facing north and south, except for the north side all the other three sides are buffered strategically with Soleil cells on the east, a Courtyard on the south, a Louvered facade on the west to minimize the heat gain of the structure. Rat trap walls provide essential thermal insulation which is increased by the lime-plastered walls of the interior spaces. The finishes are purposefully done to reduce paints, Machine-made tiles to a minimum and they are replaced with polished oxide finishes, limestone tiles, handmade tiles, terrazzo, etc.
Cast in-situ concrete cells are arranged and stacked in a matrix with mild steel rods running both horizontally and vertically for the vertical garden with concrete planter cells at the bottom row and other cells to support the creepers to growth. This porous vertical garden along with a solid brick matrix forms the front faade. Cast-in situ terrazzo flooring in the Venetian style is purposefully done for its durability and the elegant look and feel it provides with Lime plastered walls, cement-plastered ceilings, and Teak wood doors that compose most of the interior spaces. Rat trap walls' raw brick texture highlights this home's unique character in relation to the neighborhood. The interaction of Sunlight and the Dog tooth bond brickwork creates essential drama all throughout the day.
This entire project, which has sustainability at its center, aspires to make a statement that is bold enough to include necessary passive energy-saving measures and the luxury of constructing classical ways in a modern style that has a timeless character.
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