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LETTERING

I'm curious how you chose the designers you added as "Notable Artists"?

If you were interested in building a list that recognizes specific notable lettering artists, since Wikipedia already has a "notability" guideline, choosing artists/designers who are already well established on Wikipedia would be a good bar to set. (I realize that that's not doing much in terms of "canon-busting" but it will keep your additions from getting deleted/reversed.

Here are a couple to start (you could add citations to the Meggs textbook if you wanted, but again since they already have their own Wiki pages, you don't actually need to cite any evidence that they're notable, their Wiki pages will have all the evidence necessary)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Lubalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Fili

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Hische

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Peckolick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Trochut

Those are just a few off the top of my head -- check the Shehab & Nawar reading for some good leads on Arabic lettering artists, Wael Morcos comes to mind but looks like he does not have a Wiki page yet (maybe a future student will add him!)

What justification will you leave on the Talk page about removing the reference to lettering in Islamic art?

Formal Characteristics

Lettering is composed of a few formal characteristics: simplicity, distinctiveness and proportion. Simplicity is defined as having the essential components of the letter; The structure of the letter is identifiable to its alphabet. Distinctiveness is defined as the different characteristics of the letter being marked more intentionally to accentuate the distinguishable features. Proportion is defined as preserving the essential forms of a letter in conjunction to one another when exaggerating and dwarfing.

Examples

Lettering includes that used for purposes of blueprints and comic books, as well as decorative lettering such as sign painting and custom graphics. For instance; on posters, for a letterhead or business wordmark, lettering in stone, lettering for advertisements, tire lettering, fileteado, graffiti, or on chalkboards.

Lettering may be drawn, incised, applied using stencils, using a digital medium with a stylus, or a vector program. Lettering that was not created using digital tools is commonly referred to as hand-lettering.

In the past, almost all decorative lettering other than that on paper was created as custom or hand-painted lettering. The use of fonts in place of lettering has increased due to new printing methods, phototypesetting, and digital typesetting, which allow fonts to be printed at any desired size. Lettering has been particularly important in Islamic art, due to the Islamic practice of avoiding depictions of sentient beings generally and of Muhammad in particular, and instead using representations in the form of Islamic calligraphy, including hilyes, or artforms based on written descriptions of Muhammed.

More recently, there has been an influx of aspiring artists attempting hand-lettering with brush pens and digital mediums. Some popular styles are sans serif, serif, cursive/script, vintage, blackletter ("gothic") calligraphy, graffiti, and creative lettering.

Notable Artists:

George Salter

Helmut Salden

Contemporary Artists:

Dean Rodriguez

Jen Mussari

References

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering

Standards for lettering, Mathieu Lommen