OUGD404-Study Task 2- The birth of a font.

Using the principles, processes and resources introduced in the first four studio sessions develop a series of practical investigations into the development of new letterforms and fonts.

The Process - Use the individual anatomical elements of your chosen fonts (Gothic, Roman, Block, Script) to create a range of possible new letterforms.

1 - Cut the individual elements out and re-construct them in order to create a series of Hybrid letterforms.

2 - Select the 5 most successful/interesting/legible letterforms and produce the uppercase and lowercase Aa, Bb, and Cc

3 - Trace these off and hand render them.

4 - Using the same approach to hybriding create the appropriate upper case Xx, Yy and Zz for each of the 5 new fonts.

5 - Name each Font

 

The fonts i had used originally were

Geneva

Lucida Bright

Brush script mt

Hobo std medium

 

These are the original letterforms before i cut them out:

Collages created on www.photovisi.com

3rd January 2013

 

These are variations of the different Uppercase A

 

 

 

 

 

 Different Variations of Lowercase A

 

Different Variations of Uppercase B

 

 

Different Variations of Lowercase B

 

Different variations of C (uppercase and lowercase)

 

 

 

I had noticed that the more anatomical elements to the letter you could create more variations which is why the Uppercase A and uppercase B both have considerably more variations then the lowercase letters.

 

Once the different variations had been done I then went on to choose my best five to then hand render and draw A,a,B,b,C,c,X,x,Y,y,Zz

 

Below are my final Outcomes.

 

 This is the Letter I chose to create the AaBbCc XxYyZz

 



Uppercase A,B

 Uppercase C

Uppercase X,Y 

 Uppercase Z

 Lowercase a,b

Lowercase c

 Lowercase x,y

This is the letter I I used to create the other letters.

 

Uppercase A,B,C

 Uppercase B,C

Uppercase X,Y

 

 Uppercase Y,Z

 

Lowercase A,B,C

Lowercase X,Y,Z

The Letter I chose

 Lowercase a,b,c

 Uppercase x,y,z

 Uppercase A,B,C

 Lowercase x,y,z

 The Letter I used to create the letters

 

 Uppercase A,B,C

 Uppercase X,Y,Z

 Lowercase a,b,c

Lowercase X,Y,Z 

 The Letter I used to create the letters

 Lowercase a,b,c

 Lowercase x.y.z

 Uppercase A,B,C

 

 Uppercase X,Y,Z