Typography -Task 3 Type Design & Communication

5/11/2024

5.11.2024 –17 .12.2024 / Week 8 – Week 12

ZHOU YUTONG/ 0378676

Typography / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

Exercises :Task 3  Type Design & Communication

INSTRUCTIONS


Exercises :Task 3: Type Design & Communication
week 7
1. I used the ITC New Baskerville Std font to analyze the letter H.
                                       

  Fig1.1 Letter Analysis (5.11.2024)
By analyzing the auxiliary lines, I found H has stem, serif, bar, counter parts

2.Sketch the following letters HOGB / hogb (in both lowercase and uppercase) using the 3 different pens. 

I did a lot of drafts to experiment with how to design good-looking fonts
Fig1.2. Draft design (5.11.2024)
Fig 1.3. Draft design (5.11.2024)

3.To finalise the draft, I drew on wall graffiti and Italian writing.
Fig1.4. finalise(5.11.2024) 
Pen 1 is a number three round tip pen, Pen 2 is a flat tip, and Pen 3 is a smooth brush.

Week 8 - Independent Learning Week (Task 3 continued)

1.I chose design #2 of Pen 1 and design #3 of Pen 2 as o l e d s n c h t i g , . ! # The design format for letters such as

Fig2.1. #2 of Pen 1 (12.11.2024)
Fig2.2. #3 of Pen 2 (12.11.2024)

2.Create a drawing board according to the tutorial, and pull the reference line.

Fig 2.3. Preliminary layout(12.11.2024)

3.monolithic
  •  Rounded corners: directly drag the round point
  •  Reverse rounded corners: press Alt+click anchor point
  • Chamfer: press Alt+double-click the anchor point
  • Mixed use: Fillet + Reverse Fillet + Chamfer
Fig2.4. Rectangular frame merging(12.11.2024)
4.Use tools in Adobe Illustrator Cut, width, shape builder, pen and brush Windows: Pathfinder, Align, Stroke, Actions: 1. Menu > Object > Path > Outline Stroke 2. Menu > Object > Compound Path > Make.

Fig 2.5. Paintbrush tool creation(12.11.2024)

5.Paste the paper version in for easy depiction

Fig 2.6. depict(12.11.2024)
6.Design of two versions
Fig2.7. #3 of Pen 2 (12.11.2024)
Fig 2.8 #2 of Pen 1 (12.11.2024)
7.final version
With the help of my teacher, I chose #2 of Pen 1 as the final draft.
  Fig 2.9. #2 of Pen 1 final version(12.11.2024)
Week 9-Week 13
1. Measuring length
Fig.3.1 Measurement within ai software (14.12.2024)
2.Fontlab changes font information
Fig.3.2 Change of fontlab information (14.12.2024)
3.Adjusting font spacing
Fig.3.3 font spacing  (14.12.2024)
4. Side bearing
Fig.3.4. Side bearing  (14.12.2024)
5. Font display
Fig.3.5Font display  (14.12.2024)
6.Make posters with your own fonts
Fig.3.6.Poster Design  (14.12.2024)

Final Task 3: Typography and Communication
Fig 4.1. FontLab Screengrab (15/12/2024)
 Fig 4.2. #2 of Pen 1 final version(15.12.2024)

Fig.4.3.Poster Design  (14.12.2024)
Feedback :

week7
General feedback:We are going to design fonts, three different pens for each of the three fonts.
Specific feedback:My teacher checked and helped me to change my work by changing the position of the a and the specification of the font in my cover, and I was warned not to overstretch the letters, so that I could make my own adjustments


week 9
General feedback:The teacher checked last week's typography assignment, and after the teacher checked it I put it in AI to make an electronic version and modified the Google Forms 
Specific feedback:The fonts of the electronic version and the paper design are slightly different, and it is better to paste the paper version into the software design.

week 10
General feedback:We reorganised the blog content in class, especially the typography requirements, and continued to make our own fonts
Specific feedback:My teacher told me that the font of the blog should not be too big and that the letters should not be spaced too far apart, and she suggested that I change it to a different font

week 11
General feedback:I try to import the designed fonts into fontlab, watch the video to learn how to create your own fonts!
Specific feedback:My teacher gave me suggestions for task2 and helped me solve the problem of not being able to copy fonts into fontlab

week 12
Missed class, no feedback
REFLECTION:

Experience:I found it very difficult to design fonts that I usually use, from the initial design, it requires a lot of references, but also to consider the unity of the font, the size and style of the design should be unified, the use of graphic design of the desired font is a little bit difficult for the style I want, so I had to use the pen tool to do it, but it was fun, my first time to design fonts in ai!

ObservationsI have observed that fonts are spaced a specific distance apart, for example e and o require the same spacing 

Findings :First of all, the design of fonts on the ai, this is a very important step, I found that the style of each font if not uniform, the whole will be very difficult to see, if the size is not uniform, the whole will be very confusing, after meeting these conditions, in fontlab, the spacing is particularly important, if the spacing is confused will lead to confusion in the font!
Further Reading
Simple geometric shapes heavily infl uence the construction of these typefaces. Strokes
appear like strict monolines, and seemingly perfect geometric forms make up the character
shapes.

Designers fi rst take note of the size and proportion of the page or screen in which they will work. And although
every format has edged boundaries that contain design elements, that shouldn’t limit creative opportunities.
Western cultures read the written language from left to right, which typically puts the reader’s fi rst glance at the upper left-hand corner of formats.
Most would likely say they begin by building a grid. Chances are, however, that some of
them think image fi rst, perhaps laying down the primary photograph or illustration upon which
the rest of the typographic information delineates.
A traditional-looking and perfect-bound book could benefi t from single left- and right-page columns to make text fl ow easily.





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