Typography - Task 3A

17/5/2022 - 31/5/2022 / week 8 - week 10

Lee Yan Xu / 0347696

Typography /  Bachelor of Design in Creative Media

Task 3A

Type Design and Communication

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Lectures

In this lecture video, Mr. Vinod showed all the steps about how to make a new font.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVCyvjK25w&list=PLZk01iRkmnlUF8tRLTTAogutYcraV6DFR&index=19

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Instruction

Task 3A - Type Design & communication

Research

I am looking for some other designer's work on Pinterest so I can get some idea from it. 

Fig 1, Design by Monika Oshi on Pinterest, 18 May 2022

Fig 2, Design by Hugo Tseng on Pinterest, 18 May 2022

Progression

Fig 3, Progression on Illustrator, 30 June 2022

Measurement

Ascender - 717pt

Capital Height - 683pt

Median - 490pt

Descender - 214pt

Here is the progression after copying and pasting from Illustrator to Fontlab 7

Fig 4, Progression on Fontlab 7, 30 June 2022

Fig 5, Progression on Fontlab 7, 30 June 2022

After finish the adjustment on Fontlab 7, install it into Illustrator and try to type some words.

Fig 6, Testing my font on illustrator, 30 June 2022

Final Outcome

Fig 7, Final outcome in JPG, 30 June 2022

Fig 8, Final outcome in JPG, 30 June 2022

Fig 9, Final outcome in PDF, 30 June 2022

Fig 10, Final outcome in PDF, 30 June 2022

Download Link

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15Wk57XzAFuY4Jv4l7ZeLBmJ7ZM-Rxkfw

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Feedback

Week 8

Do 5 font sketches. 

Week 9

N/A

Week 10

Everything is fine, keep doing it.

Reflection

I was very happy and satisfied with this assignment because it was very interesting and challenging. In the beginning, I really didn't have any concept or idea for this task but after I did some research, I found some inspiration from many websites such as Pinterest and Zcool. Finally, the moment I finished it, I got a sense of accomplishment and that is why I really really like it.

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Further Reading

Fig 10, A Type Primer, 25 June 2022

I am sure that this book can help me so much in this task. That is because it contains a lot of basic skills and ideas for a beginner designer such as me. It also gives me a lot of information and inspiration for creating a new font. After reading this book, I can do it better and easier compare to when I just start this task.