Type Design

Never knew that type design can be so tedious. I mean I understand it is definitely not an easy task to come up with a set of nicely designed letters, but before I do it myself I really underestimated the amount of work A LOT! Type design is like maths, a lot of calculations and all and you need to work like an engineer, not artist. Now I have 100% of respect to all the type designers out there who put in their heart and soul in coming up with a set of nicely designed typeface.

Here's what I have been working on for weeks, it's my Typography III assignment. A font revival.

This type of rounded font is definitely not something new in the market and in fact when I proposed to my prof she actually gave me this website which shows 25 Fabulous Rounded and Circle Fonts for Artist and indeed, they are all very similar to the font I have been developing. However, I am confident to say that mine is different (lol.. every designer/artist will try to defend his/her work and say it's different. Just like paintings of Van Doesburg and Mondrian, they look the same to me but they will be offended if you say it's the same. haha). So mine is different in the sense that not only did I draw every letter based on circle, I also tried to bring out the sequence of writing a stroke in the type face, and the sequence is based on how children use a marker to write their letters. Afterall this set of font will be used in publicity materials which target at kids, so I thought it would be good to mimic their style in some way.

So here is some of my first round of research, if you realized in this research it is all uppercase letters because I wanted to design a set of uppercase letters. However I changed my mind halfway after consulting my prof.

Right now I'm still missing the letter 'z' in this set and I'm not really happy with 's' because it is not very readable and feels a bit uncomfortable. I have 2 different 'w' and 3 different 'y' which I still can't decide which to put in this set. I think I shall try to put them in words so to see the relationship of it with other letters, and also to consult my prof tomorrow and see how it goes.