I’ve been working on the creation of a font for a few weeks now as part of the process to build up on my knowledge of typographic terms and also as a way of experimenting with typefaces. It’s taken longer than I thought it would; but I have completed the majority of my Font in lowercase and uppercase and am quite pleased with the outcome.
I wanted to push myself beyond creating just a geometric font and really test my skill with Illustrator and my patience with precision. I also wanted to create a serif font, rather than a sans serif as I thought it would better my skill in type design. In the past I have made bits of type using the obvious “sticks and circles” method, but this time I wanted to create an actual working font. I took inspiration from one of my favourite serif fonts, Georgia; and got to work on creating my type.
I had a couple of basic principles that I wanted to stick to as best I could. The first is dependent on the thickness of the type. I created the stems of my type using one of two widths, created from two squares; one 50% bigger than the other. I then created some circles with the same diameter as the squares and used these to create my serifs. With these main principles in place, I was then free to creatively explore the aesthetics of my font.
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The toughest characters to make were the letters “s” and “g” due to the awkward angle and precision needed for the curved sections. After I had successfully completed them, they then became my favourite letters out of my typeface.
There are still sections that I would like to improve on, but overall, this has been a very interesting task and I have enjoyed creating my first complete font. I’ll definitely be creating more in the future.
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