Typography (WEEK 8+9, TASK 3A)

18.05.2021 - 25.05.2021 (Week 8-9)
Haura Laiqa Naznin / 0345050 / Bachelors of Design in Creative Media
Typography
Task 3A

LECTURES

Week 8 (18.05.2021)
No lectures as it is independent learning week.

Week 9 (25.05.2021)
Going through feedback on the progress of our sketched out typeface designs. Some have already digitalized theirs, some haven't. Then Mr Vinod went onto Illustrator to show how we could improve our typefaces by explaining what spurs and contrast is.

INSTRUCTIONS


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Task 3A: Creating own typeface

For this task we are meant to start creating our own typeface by using an existing one as a point of reference. We would need to study it's anatomical parts by deconstructing, but first sketches of our ideas need to be done.

For the reference, I will be using the fonts 'Adobe Carlson Pro' and 'ITC New Baskerville'.

Figure 1.0

I may also use these other two fonts as inspiration.

Figure 1.1

Using them as references I came up with 5 possible typefaces to design.

Figure 1.2 Concept sketches

Figure 1.3 Progress in Illustrator

Using illustrator to design my chosen typeface. I decided to go for the very first one since Mr Vinod liked that one too. I'm still struggling a lot when it comes to this program but so far, it doesn't look too horrible.


Figure 1.4 More progress

Figure 1.5 Improvements done to the typeface

Thanks to Mr. Vinod's feedback I have made slight improvements such as removing the arc for the letter 'm' and thickening some lines that were inconsistent before.

Figure 1.6 Final typeface

Figure 1.7 Kerning the letters

After that's all done, I could finally generate my typeface into an actual font. This part was quite exciting, even if my font isn't the prettiest.

Figure 1.8 Font added to system

Figure 1.9 Final poster using own font

Figure 2.0 PDF version

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