tasting typography: make your own letters

codepot 2015

Tasting Typography: Make Your Own Letters

@khyroslava @magdazadara

Improvise

Learn some rules

Evaluate & Discuss

Recreate

Freestyle

Improvise

hands-on

the tools

1 bag + sheet of paperbrains + hands (2 persons)

source: www.typo.polona.pl

scan & print

Wow!

Wow!

micro macro

Wow!

micro

source: www.designersinsights.com/designer-resources/anatomy-of-typography

Didot Regular

source: www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/CD/deskapps/inkscape/tut5.html

source: www.calligraphy-by-sam.tumblr.com

Sans Serif

Helvetica Neue Thin

Futura Medium

legilibity / readability

source: www.ilovetypography.com/2010/11/02/reviving-caslon-part-2-readability-affability-authority

source: www.bwa.wroc.pl/index.php?l=pl&id=831&b=6&w=1

source: www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/january/ratp-led

elements

spacing

spacing

s p a c i n g

lato regular; spacing -100

lato regular; spacing 0

lato regular; spacing 200

thickness

thicknessthickness

lato hairline

lato medium

lato black

contrast

contrastcontrast

didot regular

bodoni book

garamond regular

contrast

contrastcontrast

didot regular

bodoni book

garamond regular

x-height x-heightcochin regular georgia regular

x-height x-heightcochin regular georgia regular

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

lato light

raleway light

helvetica light

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

lato light

raleway light

helvetica light

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

lato light

raleway light

helvetica light

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

lato light

raleway light

helvetica light

1l Ocean1l Ocean1l Ocean

georgia regular

caslon medium

calluna regular

1l Ocean1l Ocean1l Ocean

georgia regular

caslon medium

calluna regular

media

source: www.fontshop.com/content/ff-franziska-for-buendner-tagblatt

source: www.fontshop.com/content/ff-franziska-for-buendner-tagblatt

W

W

W

source: www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/the-ails-of-typographic-anti-aliasing/

evaluate& discuss

recreate

freestyle