Advanced Typography: Task 3 Type Exploration & Application

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 Week 1 - 14 (23/9/2024 - 4/1/2025)
SUNG J XIN/ 0370139/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
GCD 61004  ADVANCED TYPOGRAPHY
Task 3 - Type Exploration & Application

Instructions


Process Work


I put in some ideas that I had at the time from what I had seen in various medias and decided to make a font inspired by horror media, mostly slasher films. I like the style of the title always looking so sharp and terrifying and decided that I wanted to make a font like that.

Initial Sketch

Making a Grid by Using an Axisting Font (Univers LT Std) as a Reference


While creating the font, I realised that the grid will not help that much with the type of font I was doing, but I decided to keep going to see how it will turn out. I depended on the referenced font to create my letterforms.

Process Work

Final Letterforms in Illustrator



Final
(No download link yet due to problems with FontLab)

Font Presentation 1

Font Presentation 2

Font Presentation 3

Font Presentation 4

Font Presentation 5




Font Application 1

Font Application 2



Font Application 3

Font Application 4

Font Application 5




Feedback
Week 10:
Font is acceptable, but use grids to ensure that all letters have the same height and width.

Week 11-14: No Feedback
Reflection

This was a very experimental task as we got to create our own fonts and apply them however we want. I had many problems while doing this due to my laptop lagging a lot but I tried my best with what I had in the end. I wish I could have done more since I definitely woul like to add more to it.

Further Reading


  • Underlining: Most programs handle underlining incorrectly and should be adjusted so that they do not touch any of the characters.


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