1. What did you learn?
I learned how to create a font, what goes into a font, and how to make a modular typeface.
2. What was easy?
While I’ve never thought much about fonts, as I was viewing various fonts and watching the Helvetica movie, I noticed that every specific font had an edge in some location. I decided then my typeface would attempt to go with as little edges as possible.
3. What was challenging?
Executing my idea. I wanted to use fontstruct originally, but it lacked some of the things I wanted to create a font with. So instead I moved to figma, which had a good enough mixture of the tools I needed. While I had envisioned this being a sans serif font, it was clear to me as I was working in figma that it was more of a script font. Using pixels to create a font with minimal lines wasn’t possible, so I embraced the style of the font more than the concept. This got me very far, and eventually my entire project was done in this tedious, yet rewarding style.
The tedious, yet rewarding process of using the pencil and pen tool to create layouts for my type. I would then choose pixels to fill in based on how much of the pixels were filled in by the pen.
4. How could your submission be improved?
I’m not sure figma was the best platform to create my font on. I had experimented with each platform and found that figma seemed the most natural for my idea. When I eventually changed my idea, I realized Adobe Illustrator likely would’ve been a lot faster, and could also be done neater.
5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?
Despite the fact that I used figma, I’m not sure if figma is the best website to construct a font on. Fontstruct is made for fonts, and Illustrator has everything figma does, but you need to pay for it if you wish to work on it at home. It was ultimately the paywall that led me to Illustrator. If there was more time given to the assignment, I could’ve made better work, and I could probably spend the extra time getting things done in Illustrator.
6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
Because of my specific font, I was heavily focusing on style. I feel like this has allowed me to understand the style of fonts better. Hopefully this knowledge of style will help me pair proper fonts to designs in the future.
Poster. I would’ve removed the boxes if I knew how, but I don’t mind it too much. It gives a unique perspective into how I made this modular font.