Study and Application of New Technologies for The Recovery And Typographical Digitisation Of Juan De Yciar’s Calligraphic Heritage

Abstract

Typographical signs constitute an irreplaceable element of our global, cultural and visual communication environment. This key role has grown out of the efforts of each of the individual calligraphers, printers and design professionals interested in alphabetical forms. Such an effort is worthy of attention and study, through various disciplines, such as humanities, graphic design and new technologies, in order to study, recover, analyse, understand, reconstruct and apply the ability and thought employed in the creation of the different alphabetical forms. The formalisation of writing signs has witnessed spectacular change thanks to the digitisation of typography, and is one of the most interesting fields opened up by contemporary computing graphics. The digitisation of alphabetical symbols opens a broad field of possibilities, among which is the recovery and formal revitalisation graphic cultural heritage. Part of this heritage is, undoubtedly, the visual (and eminently didactic) legacy of 16th century Vizcayan calligrapher, Juan de Yciar.