TYPOGRAPHY - PROJECT O2:

TYPOGRAPHY - PROJECT O2:

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17/05/19 - 31/05/19 (Week 7- Week 9)

Rahaf Araman (0339378)
Typography

Project 2 - Design Font

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LECTURE NOTES:

Lecture 7: Text tracing, Kerning and Letterspacing

17/05/19 (Week 7)

In this lecture we were taught about the importance of type spacing, alignments and settings.

Kerning refers to the automatic adjustment of space between letters.

Letter spacing means adding space between letters.

Tracking is the addition and removal of space in a word or sentence tracking.

There is 3 types of tracking:

• Normal Tracking
• Lose Tracking
• Tight Tracking

When it comes to Alignment there are 4 different types of alignments.

• Flush Left - All Text starts on the same point on the left.
• Centered - The text is center aligned and is symmetrical on both sides.
• Flush Right -  All texts end at the same point on the right.
• Justified - The text ends and starts on the same point. the text is symmetrical but the spacing between texts differ.

Fig1.1: Leading vs Tracking vs Kerning

Lecture 8: No Lecture 
24/05/2019 (Week 8)

Lecture 9 - Text /indicating paragraphs
31/05/19 (Week 9)

There are several options for indicating paragraphs.

• The ‘pilcrow’ (¶): which is a paragraph symbol was created to be placed in front of a paragraph to save space on lamp skin.

Fig1.2: Example of 'Pilcrow'

• Line spacing vs leading

Fig1.3: Line spacing vs leading

A widow is the last line left in a paragraph left by itself at the top of the page.
An orphan is the first line of a paragraph left by itself at the bottom of the page.

Ways of highlighting text in order to create a contrast and make the text stand out in the body of text:

• using a different typeface or type family.
• changing the color.
• adding a background color.
• using quotation marks.
• increasing the font size.

"Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination and guided by rules and readability"

- Hermann Zapf

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INSTRUCTIONS:

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PROJECT 2:

Week 07:

For this project we had to an existing font and dissect it so i chose Gill Sans Std as my sample font.

Fig 2.1: Dissection of "u"

Fig 2.2: Dissection of "e"

Fig 2.3: Dissection of "n"

Fig 2.4: Dissection of "v"

Then we had to create our own font based on one of the 9 fonts that Mr Vinod had given us.

Fig 2.5: rough sketches for my designed font

After digitizing the fonts Mr Vinod told me that the letters look so decorated so I fixed them.

Fig 2.7: Digitizing using Illustrator

Fig 2.8: Final Design

Fig 2.9: Adding the 15 characters into FontLab

Fig 2.10: Final Result of Project 2

Fig2.11: Font generated and typed of Illustrator

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FEEDBACK:

Week 7:
Absent.

Week 8:
Mr vinod told me that my letters are too decorated and how they should be more easily read. he also told me to remove all the extra lines I added to the letter because we don't want to do any distortion to the typeface I based my designed letters on.

Week 9:Mr Vinod told me that the overall design of the letters is good but he told me to do some adjustment for certain letters such as for the (D and S) and the size of the (.) and(') . For fontlab Mr Shamsul helped me with the spacing between the letters as the spacing between some letters wasn't consistent.

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REFLECTION

Experiences

(Week 8):I was really lost and confused of what I'm supposed to do because i was absent the previous week.

(Week 9):I thought using FontLab was going to be complicated but it was easier than i though.

Observation

(Week 8):I was frustrated cause i felt that i was behind because of i had to fix most of my work.
(Week 9):Having the whole time to finish our work made me realize that i was able to do my work much better.

Findings

(Week 8): Seeking for help early will save so much time.

(Week 9):Using FontLab to edit the letters was easier than using illustrator. 

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FURTHER READINGS:

(Week 8-10)

Fig3.1: Just My Type by Simon Garfield

This book answers such basic questions as: What exactly is a typeface? What's the difference between a typeface and a font? What specific features make them good or bad-assuming one can qualify them subjectively in this way? Why are there so many? And why do people keep designing more?
Simon Garfield presented this subject in a great way that this book is lavishly endowed with humorous asides, historical details, examples of various typefaces and illustrations depicting their use.