Typographic Poster
This assignment required us to use a classmate’s font to design a series of type specimens. The first poster could only show one character, the second poster had to show the phrase that inspired my typeface, and the third poster had to show the complete character set. The quote was “A shiver in the workshop of the brain”.
I went about creating these specimens by looking at the quote for inspiration. I decided to focus on the words “shiver” and “brain”. Shiver led to two cool colors, purple and light blue. “Brain” led to a peachy pink color. The block way conveying that the quote was cold. It’s huddled in a corner, pressed in, searching for warmth. It wants to heat up. For the single letter poster, my most successful one, I placed with a few letters and settled on W because it stacked well.
Typeface Design
This was my very first assignment in my very first graphic design class. We were told to create 26 characters for the uppercase alphabet, 10 numerals and basic punctuation. The design was supposed to be inspired by a quote give to us by the professor, executed in FontStruct. My quote was “the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places”. I began by curating a Pinterest board inspired by my quote to figure out the style that I was going for. Next, I designed the H, O, M, R, and A in order to develop a cohesive structure. From there I used the basic forms to make all other characters. FontStruct was very limiting, so I worked very zoomed in to really customize the details. Because of this process, this font is best used as a display face. The font specimen was supposed to use 2-3 colors and basic shapes only. Again, I drew inspiration from the quote to create a moon-like scene to hold my font.