Ever wonder why there’s a million fonts? Especially when you end up using a handful over and over again? Typography shows that the words have visual meanings that can add or modify the linguistic meaning. Typography is spell-casting, the weird twists and turns the rendering of letters take in order to read as “arcane” or the basic, sans-serif, unadorned style of a business contract. What does a lie look like? A sad, sad song? Have you seen the small print in advertisements, why would someone design something to be unreadable? Isn’t the function of text to be read? All these questions will be explored in Typography I. This course can be used to satisfy University Studies requirements.