Typography Task 3: Type Design & Communication

May 15, 2023

Typography Task 3: Type Design & Communication

16.5.23-26.6.23/ Week 7- Week 13
Nitish A/L Naveen Kumar 0346592,
Typography, Bachelor of Design (HONOURS) in Creative Media
Task 3: Type Design & Communication

LECTURES

All Lecture

INSTRUCTIONS

TASK

Sketches

Fig 1.0 Round Brush 14/5/23

Fig 1.1 Super Fine 14/5/23

Fig 1.2 Calligraphy 14/5/23

Fig 1.3 Calligraphy 14/5/23

Fig 1.4 Fine 14/5/23

Fig 1.5 Brush 14/5/23

Fig 1.6 Different pens and brush (5) 21/5/23

Fig 1.7 Calligraphy Chosen capital letters 28/5/23

Fig 1.8 Calligraphy Chosen small letters 28/5/23

Digitalization Adobe Illustrator

Out of the 10 typeface I used Universe LT Bold Condense as my font reference as well as deconstruction

Fig 1.9 Type Deconstruction T 25/5/23

Fig 2.0 Type Deconstruction M 25/5/23

Fig 2.1 Type Deconstruction G 25/5/23

Fig 2.2 Constructing Chosen letters into Ai 27/5/23

Fig 2.3 Constructing the Font 27/5/23

Fig 2.4 Font Constructed 4/6/23

As advised by Mr Vinod that this was a complete disaster, Mr Vinod thought me how to construct with stroke rather than shapes.

Fig 2.5 Reconstructing Font 15/6/23

Redoing the Font in Ai using strokes, since I had very little time the process was not much and was not documented.

Fig 2.6 Finalising the Font in Ai 15/6/23

Measurements

Baseline: 0 pt
X-Height: 500 pt
Ascender: 722 pt
Descender: -220 pt
Cap Height: 684 pt

Digitalization Font Lab 8

Fig 2.7 Importing letters from Ai to FontLab 8 18/6/23

Importing the letters from AI to Font Lab 8

Fig 2.8 Before adding the bearings 18/6/23

Before adding the left and right bearing.

Fig 2.9 Adding the left and right bearing 18/6/23

After adding the left and right bearing (50 on the left, -50 on the right).

Fig 3.0 Kerning different letters 18/6/23

Figuring the kerning for each of the letters.

Fig 3.1 Kerning the same letter 18/6/23

Kerning the same letter twice for every letters in 'aetkgriympn'. Adjusted the 'a' and 'e' as they were too big.

Fig 3.2 Metric table for 'ympn' 18/6/23

Showing the metric table for 'ympn'. Metric table for 'ympn'.

Fig 3.3 Metric table for 'aetkgri' 18/6/23

Showing the metric table for 'aetkgri'.

Fig 3.4 (chat gpt creating a sentence using the letters 'aetkgriympn')

FINAL OUTCOME

Fig 3.5 "Ancient" A4 Poster 20/6/23

Fig 3.6 Font "Ancient" 24/6/23

Font download: Ancient Font

Fig 3.7 Final Outcome "Ancient" Poster A4 JPEG 25/6/23

Fig 3.8 Final Outcome "Ancient" Font JPEG 25/6/23

Fig 3.9 Final Outcome "Ancient" Poster A4 PDF 25/6/23

Fig 4.0 Final Outcome "Ancient" Font PDF 25/6/23

FEEDBACK

Week 9

General Feedback: Follow the process that was given to us to digitize our letterings.

Specific Feedback: Make sure if you're using the brush tool to have the size big enough to cover your lettering, the G and Y have to alter the bottom part as mine is too long, the letters should cover the entirety of the baseline to the median line.

Week 10

General Feedback:

Specific Feedback:

Week 11

General Feedback: Compile the sketches to make it more tidy, better to compile the sketches, no jump links for other sections (further reading, etc), better to have some explanations for some of the work process.

Specific Feedback: The font is an absolute disaster have to change it from scratch.

Week 12

General Feedback: Absent

Specific Feedback: Absent

REFLECTIONS

Experience
Just like all the other typography projects this was hard as well, it was fun as that I get the experience hands on to create my own unique font no matter how disasters it is. This project has thought me the hard and lengthy process and hardships to just create a few letters as well as punctuations I wonder how it will be to create and entire letters from a to z. This was an experience I found enjoyable since I do like fonts especially tolkeins typeface like the elvish letterings, I also like the runic typeface but I can't tell which century has a desirable style.

Observations
Ive observed that when deconstructing the font that there are so much in play even though they all look alike there's quite a huge difference between all of them.

Findings

Ive found that although it was a few letters the process taken was very long and lengthy as it there is so much to change and fix, one problem has a solution another problem appears. The sketching helped as it gave a desirable style we could use to create our own font.

FURTHER READING