Week 9- 11
Chalani Tharanga Wanigasekara (0329562)
Typography and hypertextuality
Project 2- Font design
Lecture 9
We were given to do a research of font to use into our own font design and instructed to look on the Adobe Font Folio (given by the lecturer) and Google Font. We did a sketch of our font design. Mr. Vinod said that we had to take notes of strokes, curves, weights, positive and negative counter space of the font when we were designing it. Later, we digitalised the font. The requirement was should set the x-height at 500pts.
Lecture 10
We were taught on how to transfer our font from Adobe Illustrator to FontLab Studio, how to do kerning/ tracking letters. After that, we did corrections of mistakes and did some adjustments.
Lecture 11
figure1: Kekfeng
Kekfeng is a graphic designer comes from Melaka. His first dream was fine art but his family didn't help so he changed his major to graphic design. He worked in Melaka, Kuala Lumpur and Holland as a designer,freelance. He started his career as an advertise> senior designer> art director> creative director and His first project is 'European Broadcasting Union', 2nd project is 'Donseo University', and he did a cultural project about ' Amsterdam Sinfonietta'.
figure 2: Dongseo University
figure 3: Amsterdam Sinfonietta
figure 4: Amsterdam Sinfonietta
figure 5: Camera Japan Festival
Figure 8: Nemo Science Museum
figure 9: Sound Energy
figure 10: greeting card
Project 2 20%
The Brief
Font Design.
Duration of Assignment
2 Weeks (Briefing on week 8)
Deadline
Week 10 (30 May, 2017)
Description
You will be expected to design a font of 27 western alphabets along with punctuation marks. To begin with choose an existing font design that adheres to the direction that you would like to head in. Study the font carefully by analysing its anatomical parts.
Identify a Form (Basic shapes i.e., Square, Circle, Triangle) this shall be the starting point of your designs. You may also choose shapes that you see around you or that you like (i.e. an arrow, a face, a building, etc). One of these shapes will form the basis of your font design. Your font can be designed to also fulfil a specific need.
Start with rough sketches and upon approval begin digitization of the drawings—software for digitization shall be determined in class. Artworks shall be printed out for critique sessions followed by refinements. If time permits we shall generate the font for actual use.
Requirements
The student must utilise the accumulated knowledge from the exercises, lectures and from their own reading (library books and online sources) to guide them and inform them in their decisions.
The student must document the process (sketches, trial and errors) in their eporfolio and hardcopy portfolio. The student will be expected to submit the final mock-up in the hardcopy portfolio and the softcopy PDF (and or JPEG) uploaded or embedded unto the eportfolio. Create a separate folder in your Google Drive and store all files, artefacts, project submissions, etc. here.
Ensure all items are logically and chronologically ordered, labelled and dated.
Submission
All gathered information (failures, successes, epiphanies, sketches, visual research, printouts, websites, images, charts, etc.) documented logically and chronologically in the A4 Clear Sheet hardcopy portfolio. The works labelled and dated. All gathered information (failures, successes, epiphanies, sketches, visual research, printouts, websites, images, charts, etc.) documented logically and chronologically in the eportfolio for the duration of the project in one post. Images of all the designed alphabets or glyphs on one A3 printed and uploaded. All the glyphs transferred to the determined software, formatted for the purpose of generation.
Objectives
To develop students ability to construct a readable and legible font.
To develop students ability to design a font with consistent characteristics.
To allow students to experience the various phases of font design.
Font Design.
Duration of Assignment
2 Weeks (Briefing on week 8)
Deadline
Week 10 (30 May, 2017)
Description
You will be expected to design a font of 27 western alphabets along with punctuation marks. To begin with choose an existing font design that adheres to the direction that you would like to head in. Study the font carefully by analysing its anatomical parts.
Identify a Form (Basic shapes i.e., Square, Circle, Triangle) this shall be the starting point of your designs. You may also choose shapes that you see around you or that you like (i.e. an arrow, a face, a building, etc). One of these shapes will form the basis of your font design. Your font can be designed to also fulfil a specific need.
Start with rough sketches and upon approval begin digitization of the drawings—software for digitization shall be determined in class. Artworks shall be printed out for critique sessions followed by refinements. If time permits we shall generate the font for actual use.
Requirements
The student must utilise the accumulated knowledge from the exercises, lectures and from their own reading (library books and online sources) to guide them and inform them in their decisions.
The student must document the process (sketches, trial and errors) in their eporfolio and hardcopy portfolio. The student will be expected to submit the final mock-up in the hardcopy portfolio and the softcopy PDF (and or JPEG) uploaded or embedded unto the eportfolio. Create a separate folder in your Google Drive and store all files, artefacts, project submissions, etc. here.
Ensure all items are logically and chronologically ordered, labelled and dated.
Submission
All gathered information (failures, successes, epiphanies, sketches, visual research, printouts, websites, images, charts, etc.) documented logically and chronologically in the A4 Clear Sheet hardcopy portfolio. The works labelled and dated. All gathered information (failures, successes, epiphanies, sketches, visual research, printouts, websites, images, charts, etc.) documented logically and chronologically in the eportfolio for the duration of the project in one post. Images of all the designed alphabets or glyphs on one A3 printed and uploaded. All the glyphs transferred to the determined software, formatted for the purpose of generation.
Objectives
To develop students ability to construct a readable and legible font.
To develop students ability to design a font with consistent characteristics.
To allow students to experience the various phases of font design.
Project 2
Firstly, I chose a font (Futura Medium) and sketched it and then did some changes. I added some curves for the font. Later, used illustrator and drew letters using by pen tool (used smooth tool to make more nice curves.) and filled strokes ( object > path > outline stroke)
secondly, opened a new file on FontLab Studio and made the font which I made on Adobe Illustrator.
figure 1: practice paper
figure 2: sketch
figure 3: chose the font ( Futura Medium)
figure 4: work process in Adobe Illustrator
figure 6: work process in FontLab Studio
figure 8: Final work
Feedback 1
Overall good, both lecturers said I inspired very well. However, there were some slight mistakes such as curves and thickness. The curve looks too much.
Feedback 2
Some curves of letters not good and didn't save the strokes file. So have to redo again.
Feedback 3
Overall good and Mr Vinod said that i developed now.I did the curves very well butIi got some mistakes of few letters.
Reflection
Experience
After I did the sketch I thought we’re using font lab studio for make it. However, firstly we used adobe illustrator. Then I thought we’re going to use our choose font and changing some changes. But actually, we drew again on illustrator.
I haven't heard about FontLab Studio or fontograph before. however, this is a good practice to learn a new software.
Books read throughout the assignment
Lettering & Type
figure 9: Lettering & Type
figure 10: modifying font (similar to my font )
figure 11: previous lessons
This book helped me to refer old lessons such as ascender, descender, x-height, baseline, cap height. Written by Bruce Willen Nolen Strals.
I love Futura
figure 12: I Love Futura
I borrowed this book for find changes of Futura but I learnt how to use Futura without doing any changes. Not only that but also learnt the history of Futura font. edited and designed this book by TwoPoints.net
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