Typography - Project 2

09/10/19 (Week 7)
Tabita Febrilia Dinata (0340357)
Typography Project 2 - Font Design

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LECTURE NOTES

LECTURE 7 : DESCRIBING LETTERFORM
09/10/19 (Week 7)

Few things that we need to remember.
1.X-Height: The height in any typeface
2.Baseline: The imaginary line of the visual base of letter
3.Median: The Imaginary line of the X-Height

Fig 1.1 : Difference between X-height, Median, Baseline.

4. Stroke : Any line that defines the basic letterform

Fig 1.2 : Stroke

5. Ascender : The portion of the stem of lowercase above the letter
6. Descender : The portion of the stem of lowercase below the baseline

Fig 1.3 : Ascender vs Descender

LECTURE 8 : LETTERS / UNDERSTANDING LETTERFORMS
23/10/10 (Week 8)

Again in this lecture we see and learn about all the difference between one typeface to another typeface.

Fig 2.1 : Seeing typefaces

Fig 2.2 : Seeing typeface 2

LECTURE 9 : UNDERSTANDING LETTERFORMS
23/10/19 (Week 9)

No lecture today, focus on doing project 2.

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INSTRUCTION

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PROJECT 1
09/10/19 - 23/10/19 (Week 7 - Week 9)

Mr.Vinod tells us and explain about what is this project about. We have to create our own typeface that inspired by the 9 type families that has been given to us in this typography class. We have to make ' d g i s n o e h t k r ! , . '

Mr.Vinod guide us to do this project. First thing he told us to pick one typeface from the 9 families and dissect it. I choose futura because it's the simplies among all the other typeface. So this is the result of my dissection of the letterform.

Fig 3.1 : Dissection of Futura letter 'n'.

Fig 3.2 : Dissection of Futura letter 'o'

Fig 3.3 : Dissection of Futura letter 'k'

Fig 3.4 : Dissection of Futura letter 't'

Fig 3.5 : Dissection of Futura letter 'e'

Fig 3.6 : Dissection of Futura letter 'd'

After that we need to sketch out our idea for our font so i sketch it out.

Fig 3.7 : Sketch 1

Fig 3.8 : Sketch 2

After i sketch it i try to digitze it for the first try.

Fig 3.9 : Process 1

Fig 3.10 : Process 2

Fig 3.11 : First try 

When i showed this to Mr.Vinod he said it looks interesting & cool but my consistency is still messed up so he showed me how to make a consistency with a calligraphy pen and he said to keep going and keep doing it.

Fig 3.12 : Mr.Vinod's feedback

Fig 3.13 : 2nd attempt

Fig 3.14 : Final for the first attempt

After i showed this to my lecterur they still comment about my consistency & the 'e' letter looks weird, they say the same thing about my font, they said it's unique & cool if i improve it, it's going to need a lot of work but it's going to be so good, so Mr.Vinod help me to improve this font. And he produces this font.

Fig 3.15 : Improvement by Mr.Vinod

Fig 3.16 : Process 3

Fig 3.17 : Sentence Testing

Fig 3.18 : Final

Then i put this in the fontlab and make the kerning thing & generate the font.

Fig 3.19 : First Attempt

Fig 3.20 : Second Attempt

Fig 3.21 : 3rd Attempt

Fig 3.22 : Final 

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FEEDBACK

Week 7 (09/10/19)
General Feedback : We only have to embed our Pdf file for our final submission. The comments that has been given must be documented on our e-portofolio.
Specific Feedback : The Pdf version only for the Final not the progression. About my blog also, the pdf is gone so have to check it all the time, and my blog haven't complete yet.

Week 8 (16/10/19)
General Feedback : We have to always update our blog & the font design is more to the serious thing & not only look good but elegant. 
Specific Feedback : I've designed two typefaces and when Mr.Vinod look at one of my 'h', he said it looks interesting and cool. So he demonstrate by drawing & gave me feedback & improvement that i can do on my typeface, he said it's cool but too sharp, so i have to make a little curve.

Week 9 (21/10/19)
General Feedback : After we done exporting our font to fontlab, we have to type ' god is in the kerning ' in A4 paper the final should be label as ' font name by name, 2019 '
Specific Feedback : Mr.Vinod said mine looks nice & interesting but my consistency is not that consistent. So, for the final i should make it more consistent for the stroke.

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REFLECTION

Experience :
Week 7: This week is more and more challenging, we were told to make our own typeface at first I thought that this is going to be hard and yes at first I was struggling with all of this work I tried but I just don't get it, but I kept try & practise until I can do this.
Week 8: It turns out I kinda like this project and turns our my lecturer like my work and I'm happy for what I've done.
Week 9: The more I'm working at it I felt like next time I'll do it again and this is kind of my things and I enjoy when I have to practice and understand how to make consistency in making a typeface.

Observation :
Week 7: I observed that everyone is working hard & taking this very seriously, so it making me want to work hard too.
Week 8: When I saw other people works I realize that everyone has their own style to do this project, and everyone has their own idea on their own and all of them are unique.
Week 9: I observed everyone in the class again so I can get more reference and I saw that their alignment are great and they can handle it well. And most of us have a problem about FontLab, some of us doesn't have FontLab so it's nice to see this class help each other but there's also classmate that don't care at all and won't help others.

Findings :
Week 7: I found it hard at first to figure out & thinking of an idea, but when we dissect and realize from the 1/9 type families that we have dissected we realize the little things that happen when someone designs a typeface.
Week 8: Everyone can design, everyone can create a typeface but not everyone can know what is a good typeface is, so we need to read a lot and learn a lot more so we can be a good designer and a good typographer.
Week 9: At first I'm not expecting mine will be a good one, but it turns out mine is interesting and my lecturer liked it. So i found that everyone can make a good typeface and everyone can create a good one.

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FURTHER READING

Typographic System by Kimberly Elam
09/10/19 (Week 7)

Fig 4.1 : Typographic Systems book

One of this book's topic is Project elements and Process. This tells us about an understanding of systems of visual organization gives the designer an in-depth knowledge of the design process. The traditional ties that bind design education and visual process to the rigid horizontal and vertical grid systems of the letterpress are no longer the sole means of order and efficiency in production. It also tells that designer is challenged to use each system in the development of a type message. Each of the systems has a distinct and visual language. And also they give the example that organized with the system.

-Axial system : All elements are organized either to the left or right of the single axis
-Radial system : All elements extend from a point of focus
-Dilatational system : All elements expand from the central
-Random system : Elements appear to have no specific pattern or relationship
-Grid system : A system of vertical & horizontal divisions
-Transitional system : An informal system of layered banding


Virtual typography by Matthias Hillner
16/10/19 (Week 8)

Fig 4.2 : Virtual typography book

The introduction about this book encourage about graphic design. According to this book graphic design is a means of visual communication, but only one of many people also communicate through gestures, facial expression, body posture, images and written words. It tells that words & letters are the verbal languages. I read about Visual poetry to modern typography and it says that typography is the visual representation of text information. One could argue that every typographic arrangement constitutes the image of a text, however abstract this image may be. Visual poetry broke with the conventions of traditional typography.Visual poets returned to the use of pencil & paper. So the modern one more like a digital.