Typography / Task 3

Typography - project 3

29.9.2023 - 5.1.2024 (Week 1 - Week 14)

Aidi Rafiq | 0353422 | Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

TYPOGRAPHY

INSTRUCTION

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LECTURES

Week 7 - 10/11/2023

Week 7, we were introduce to producing our own font. We have to select a preferred front from the 10 fonts Mr. Vinod gave us and use the following letters (O D H N G) with our style. We free hand it on graph paper with 3 marker pens that are above 3.0 size.

Week 8 - 17/11/2023

It's an independent week, but Mr.Vinod still want us to upload our progress into Facebook group of our chosen font. He chose which one is the best or which need to be work on, and then digitize our work in Adobe illustrator. (O L E D S N C H T I G , . ! # ) were given to digitize it.

Week 9 - 24/11/2023

This is a continuation from week 8 where we keep editing our fonts base of the feedback from week 8. Most of the time in class we edit our fonts.

Week 10 - 1/12/2023

This week is we focus on refining our letters.

Week 11 - 8/12/2023

Mr. Vinod introduce FontLab to us which is a software that we can turn our final letters into a Typeaable font.

Week 12 - 15/12/2023

We were focus on producing a poster with our fonts and getting feedback from Mr. Vinod

FONTS
We have to produce a new font by choosing one of the 10 fonts that he provided us and refer to that. The following letters that we have to make is (O L E D S N C H T I G , . ! # ). The we have to export our sketches to Adobe Illustrator and make it into a real font.

1. Sketches

Fig 1.0 15/10/23 Few attempts of Task 3

Fig 1.0.1 17/10/23 final sketches of the letters

Fig 1.1 17/10/23 chosen font sketches (Univers lt Std)

2. Digitization

Fig 1.2 30/11/23 First attempt creating my new font in Adobe Illustrator

Fig 1.3 08/12/23 Putting my font from Ai into FontLab

Fig 1.4 08/12/23 Finalising Fonts in Adobe Illustrator

Fig 1.5 12/12/23 Testing with kerning FontLab

Fig 1.5.1 12/12/23 Kerning Settings

FINALISE FONTS

Fig 1.6 15/12/23 Finalize font

Fig 1.6.1 15/12/23 Finalize font

Fig 1.7 15/12/23 Using my font to produce a poster

Fig 1.7.1 15/12/23 Using my font to produce a poster

Fig 1.8 15/12/23 Using my font to produce a poster

Fig 1.8.1 15/12/23 Using my font to produce a poster

LINK TO DOWNLOAD FONT

Font download (here)

FEEDBACK

Week 8

Feedback: Improve on the S with its spine.

Week 9

Feedback: Smooth out the curves in the O , S , D , G , C

Week 10

Feedback : Thinner the middle of the N

REFLECTION

Experience

Overall for this task was challenging because I've never created font before and learning the detail of the curves and the stem etc.

Observation

I decided to produce a thin and tall font because I imagine when someone use my font to be functional between in a sentence to deliver information and as a graphic. I've learned a lot about descender, ascender, baseline etc. Therefor it helps me with a neat looking font.

Findings

I've notice that I will have to keep editing/ playing around with the fonts in order to get what I want to achieve. If I stop then my I will start to procrastinate.

FURTHER READING

Typography Basics

This book is similar to "A type primer" where is basically guide anyone the basics of typography. This shows the fonts, fonts style, font families etc. Especially kerning, tracking and word letter spacing.

This book also helps me in some way because the explanation is straightforward and it has visuals to show examples of that particular context.