Font Design

The final appearance of my font turned out better than I expected once drawn in illustrator. I’m not the best at drawing nor do I think I’m very creative so it was a tough assessment for me to complete. On the plus side I am very happy with the outcome of my font and my poster. I think the font design is simple, not too flashy and fairly clean which is what I was aiming for. The poster I think worked out well. It represents the incline, which is the name of my font and the colour scheme worked out nicely. My skills I had picked up last semester with illustrator made the task a lot smoother. It might not be the best font and poster out there but at least I tried my best and I am very pleased with my effort.

Week 2 _ Typography Task

OSOBasic:

This font was inspired by the Soul Festival font I found in my previous blog post. I was really captured by the idea of using basic shapes to make a simple yet aesthetic design. This font "Basic" is essentially a square with a few lines that is easy to read and not harsh on the eyes.

Incline 45:

The font "Incline 45" was inspired by my previous study in Mechanical Engineering. I developed the idea of this font from when I had to sketch beams to analyse the forces on the joints and hinges. Most of the difficult problems with my mathematical problems were beams suspended at angles hence the idea of incline 45. The idea behind the font is to use a serif style font at a 45 degree angle. The serif's have a little semi-circle on them as I previously drew for hinges in my old engineering free body diagram drawings.

Track 9:

This design was a rough idea I thought of from riding the train. I noticed sections of the tracks when they would change for the train to follow different paths. I thought this idea would be a simple way to create a different type of font with not too many graphics but enough to make it stand out from the rest.

Week 1 Research Task (Fonts)

3 Fonts I Like:

1. Wacky Sushi: 

This font's design I found is very aesthetic. It's designed to be a japanese style with characters from the japanese alphabet used as some of the letters. It is easy to read, clean and fairly uniform. The only minor inconsistency I found is that the letter "B" is upper case but otherwise, a very creative design.

2. Soul Festival : 

This font uses basic shapes to create a simple yet appealing design. It's legibility is quite good even with its wacky nature. The sizes of the letters and bars are also very consistent.

3. CF LCD: 

This is another simple design that appears to be like a digital clock. I found this design is clean, simple and easy for people to read as they can relate to this type of format when reading digital clocks. Everything in this design is very consistent.

3 Fonts I dislike:

1. Digital Dismay:

Similar font to CF LCD however, there are a large number of inconsistencies. The letter "V" looks like a number 4 and the upper case A is too large. The CF LCD font would be a more perfect or complete style of this font.

2. Starlight: 

This design is interesting and is uniform which is good but the use of the gradient shading greatly affects the font's legibility. It is difficult to make out some of the letters.

3. Animal Alphabet: 

This design is unique however it has too many graphics on the letters which doesn't look too pleasant. It seems more messy and is a bit harsh on the eyes. 

Introduction to Design Principles

We have just covered the overview of the subject and it's assessments. From my understanding, an assessment is due every 4 weeks (meaning week 4, week 8, week 12).

Assessment 1:
Font Design - We are to create our own style of font - due week 4

Assessment 2:
Postcard - We are to create 4 different post cards - due week 8

Assessment 3:
Self expression - We are to create a poster that expresses ourselves and our goals for what we aim to achieve in our professional career. A presentation using prezi is required. - due week 12

I can now see the sort of expectation that Helen has of her students and what I should aim to achieve.