Typography Task 3

 Eric Chang / 0378298 / Bachelor of Design In Creative Media

Typography

Task 3

Week 8-10  

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Instruction:

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Progress:

Download Link for the font: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1il80ns1YJbFLlSKWzy63QHwbe3S5IBsX/view?usp=sharing

The goal of this task is to make our own usable font, the software that we'll use during this task is Adobe illustrator and FontLab 8.

We are required to bring 3 Different Pen for this task, a Calligraphy pen, a permanent marker and a normal ballpoint. Next we are asked to come up with a total of 9 sketches, so that's 3 sketches for each pen.

Reference:

Before doing this Task, i decided to do some research to determine the design that i would use. Below are the reference that i found on Pinterest

And After Looking at my reference here's all the sketches that i came up with:

After Showing all my sketches to Mr.Max he said that i can go with the dot design, which is also inspired by the morse code.

Digitization

The next part is putting my sketches into adobe illustrator, but before we do the digitization part Mr.Max gives us some exercise and that is to do some dissection of the letter 'm'

After that we could start doing it for our selected font.

Here's the final outcome for the digitization:

jpeg from illustrator with gridlines

And Here's the PDF Version

FontLab 8:

After we've done with the illustrator part, now it's time to put it into FontLab 8. This is a very straight forward progress, we just need to copy and paster our work from illustrator.

We just need to do some kerning in this part.

And we also need to make some adjustment to the kerning part, if our artwork looks odd in the final version.

Poster:

After We've done everything, now comes the last part. And that's creating a poster using our font, this is also very straight forward, we just need to go to illustrator and just adjust the background color and our font color.

And Here's The PDF Version:

Download Link for the font: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1il80ns1YJbFLlSKWzy63QHwbe3S5IBsX/view?usp=sharing

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Feedback:

Week 8: Self-Directed learning week

Week 9: Mr.Max teaches us on how to use each pen, at this week he also told us to come up with 9 sketches in total.

Specific Feedback: He Approved one of my sketches on this week

Week 10: On this week i finished to make 9 sketches in total and  Mr. Max Chooses one out of nine sketches that i made.

Specific Feedback: Mr.Max said that i could go with the morse code inspired font, he said that this design is the most unique out of all the designs that i made. And i could also begin putting my sketches into adobe illustrator.

Week 11: I continued to make my digitized version of my font, and didn't manage to finish it during the typography class

Week 12: I've finished my digitized version on this week and i showed it to Mr. Max for review.

Specific Feedback: Mr.Max reviewed the digitized version of my font, he made some adjustment to "O" and "D" because he said that the version that i made is is not rounded enough.

Week 13: I've Finished this task.

Specific Feedback: Mr Max said that i should do some kerning for my font to make it look nicer, so i did what he said and after i adjusted the kerning he said that my artwork is good.

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Further Reading:

For this task i decided to read the book "Typography referenced", there is a section in this book that mentions about creating our own typefaces, which is exactly what we're doing in task 3.

This book mentioned that the early development of the font "Neel Kshetrimayum's Frijky" Ungergoes 4 different version.

1. The strokes became bolder

2. The curves became less pointed

3. The inconsistent outstrokes became slap serif shapes

4. Terminals balanced various shaped and emphasizing the baseline.

For this task i also done some reading on "Typographic Design"

This book talks a lot about font design, and it also provides us with some example so we can understand it clearly.

Also this book mentioned about the different names that letterforms have, and how typography relies heavily on the proportions of letterforms, which impact typeface appearance. Key variables include the ratio of letterform height to stroke width, variations in stroke thickness, letter width, and the relationship of x-height to capitals, ascenders, and descenders. Specifically, the stroke-to-height ratio affects letterform weight and appearance, as seen in Roman inscriptions where letter height is ten times stroke width. Changes in stroke width notably alter the letter's visual weight.