Advanced Typography : Task 3 Type Exploration and Application
11 / 06 / 2025 - 15 / 07 / 2025 (Week 8 - Week 13 )
Meerabella Charles | 0368295
Bachelor's of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Advanced Typography
Task 3 / Type Exploration and Application
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Lecture
2. Instructions
3.Task 2A
a. Proposal
b. Sketches & Ideation
c. Fontlab generating
d. Font presentation
e. Font application
5. Final Compilation
6. Feedback
7. Reflection
8. Further Reading
A . Proposal
The task is to create a proposal based on the options from the module then
make a proposal proposing for our chosen 3 topics.
type exploration and application
Mr. Vinod told my idea was not suitable to the requirements but told me to go with stencil fonts, I took the font Arial black and modified it to modern geometrical theme font.
B. Sketches and ideation
First I exported my sketches to Illustrator and I digitised them , I am only doing capital letters, symbols and numbers.
Trial and error of small letters which did not really work well , then I proceeded to balance out my letterforms .
Another trial and error of symbols and numbers
After much understanding and feedback , I finalised my letterforms and began to import them to fontlab 7.
Process and trials of my font in Fontlab
Adding my capital letters first
Once Im done with my letters, I moved on to numbers and symbols
Process of spacing the numbers evenly, same process done for alphabets and symbols.
After finishing everything , I tested out my fonts to see if it is working properly or not. Below are the screengrab of my typing .
But the most tricky part was the error in transporting certain letters like b , d , & . numbers like 6.9.0 but I managed to fix it by exporting the file to svg and importing it into fontlab.
Once I finished my font, I exported it to my illustrator and began to do font representation and application .
process of font presentation . (did not capture for application)
Final outcomes in JPEG
FINAL _ FONT PRESENTATION
FINAL _ FONT APPLICATION
These are the designs for font application, then on I made it into mockups as below
5. Final Compilation
DOWNLOAD MY FONT HERE
FONT FORGE SCREENGRAB IN JPEG AND PDF
SCREENGRAB OF UPPERCASE, SYMBOLS AND NUMBERS (JPEG AND PDF)
FINAL _ FONT PRESENTATION (JPEG)
FINAL _ FONT APPLICATION (JPEG)
FONT PRESENTATION AND APPLICATION GATHERED IN PDF
6. Feedback
Week 9
General Feedback: absent
Week 10
Specific Feedback : Mr. Vinod explained the brief to me and told me to continue with my proposal. It would be too late to change and restart.
Week 11
General Feedback: Feedback sessions
Week 12
General Feedback : absent
Week 13
General Feedback : absent
Week 14
General Feedback : Mr. Vinod was checking everyone's e-portolio
7. Reflection
Experiences
I would say this was the most difficult part even though I have used fontlab in semester 1 but this time since the license expired, i had a tough time exporting my fonts, i used many different devices to download it but overall I had a good yet tiring experience. I gained alot of knowledge on kerning, spacing, leading and much more.
Observation
I observe how unique everyone's brain is when I look at my peer's works. It inspires me alot. Every task teaches me how to observe more.
Findings
I always learn a lot from Mr. Vinod in his classes because I see him thinking creatively and critically, even though i try to follow, I fail but i believe practice makes perfect. Sometimes I complete my tasks without proper research but in upon completing each tasks I learn how important research is and how much it can change your perspective and point of view.
8. Further Reading
1)
How to make your own font? BY JASON BURKHOLDER
- I learnt the basics of how to make a font step by step, it was more like a guidance and extra knowledge for me .
Try My Font
Type anything below to test it out:
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