Brand Exploration

The London redesign of their brand is actually my favorite of the set, its colorful and geometric and very interesting compared to most logos.I think all three are improvements of the original. I am not super fond of the SFMomo one just because it doesn't look complete in my opinion. I think the Chicago museum redesign is really nice and clean but also modern and fitting to Chicago. The Mauritshuis is the most simpler to this project, its very innovative and interesting, I love how the M goes with the h.

Blog assignment for monday

Small Capitals-is a capital letter that is of the same height as a lowercase x in the same typeface but is capitalized. They are different than the regular CAPS because they are small and the same size as the lower case. Volta does not have a small caps but the font minion pro has a small caps option. 
Ligatures- are not simply two letters arbitrarily glued together, the two letters are crafted into a single letter,Certain letter combinations are simply crying out for ligatures, for example Th. I don't think my font has them, but maybe, I can't tell.
 Difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe, Foot marks- Quotation marks, or quotes, are used in punctuation to emphasize a phrase or word or to indicate speech. There are four types of quotation marks: single open, single closed, double open, or double closed. Apostrophe -is used to show the possession of something, You can also use apostrophes to form contractions. Inch mark and quote marks are similar but also different, this link shows the differences http://practicaltypography.com/foot-and-inch-marks.html
Hyphen- Used for the hyphenation of words like co-ordination; able-minded; pre- and post- touring.
En dash-Denotes a range, especially of numbers, such as $100–150.
Em dashes-Denotes a pause in thought, a parenthetical statement, or — more casually — an afterthought.