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Published: 8th November, 2010
Last edited: 8th November, 2010
Created: 1st November, 2010
'Walking' is a font I have created based on several aspects of the theme 'repetition'. I looked at the repetitive motions we act out as humans, such as walking across a path several times but in different manners, writing a sentence over and over again, and even aspects of a typefaces personality such as serifs which repeat over and throughout this font. I wanted the font to convey not only the personalities of those who repeat actions, but also that of myself and my own mannerisms through the mixtures between symmetrical and non symmetrical characters. I chose to keep this an uppercase typeface based on the way that text looks when it is all in caps - like someone is shouting; and this, again relates to my theme of repetition in that of monotonous volumes and voices. I really wanted to explore the physical connotations of repetition.
4753210
Published: 26th October, 2013
Last edited: 4th November, 2013
Created: 22nd October, 2013
Based on the theme of 'repetition' my type design is completely based on crosswords. A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white and black shaded squares, however i decided to remove the black background that is normally visible as i wanted to create a clear, sleek and flowing typeface. Initially i wanted to create the whole font out of 4x3, but soon i realised that some letters wouldn't work and that would then make the whole font harder to read so i increased my canvas size per letter to 5x5 maximum. The numbers have no relevance to the shape of the letters, they are just evenly spread so that they don't duplicate next to each other. I have started playing around with other versions of the font and hope to get them live soon.
170301
Published: 27th October, 2014
Last edited: 26th October, 2014
Created: 23rd October, 2014
This Fontstruction is for the theme "continuous". For this theme I began looking at words that relate to continuous, such as "journey" I then looked at ideas that relate to journey such as train tracks. However I felt that this would have been difficult to create in fontstruct, so I proceeded to look at other things that are similar in structure which resulted in me looking at the form of zips.