Over this semester as part of my Process and Production Module, I will be creating and manually constructing fonts/character fonts. To introduce the focus, we watched a few videos relating to typography, the typographers and how they produce specialised fonts. Using references of our own, we transcribed shapes to make letter forms and characters, using the letters 'anesg'. Below are pictures I took of my work, and a few pieces from other students once the work was stuck on a wall to present.
A3 sheets, or graph paper were available for us to use; I chose to use graph paper, helping me with measurements and sizing of each letter. I also used, markers, colour, and pencil for my last idea. The reference I used to produce my first letter sequence, is shown in my photographs. As you can see, I have created the same technique and use of style, to produce my uppercase, jagged lettering. The second example I designed, used the red triangle I found as part of a piece of existing work. I created an overlapping effect for each letter, covering parts of the lowercase type. My third example is hard to see in these images as I only used pencil lightly for a sketchy idea.
I enjoyed this task, and will enjoy the module this semester as I love typography, and designing new style and techniques. I produced my own font as part of my college course, so I will be looking forward to creating a font of a higher standard throughout this project.
