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!

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

x-height x-heightcochin regular georgia regular

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

1l Ocean

lato light

raleway light

helvetica light

1l Ocean1l Ocean1l Ocean

georgia regular

caslon medium

calluna regular

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

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

evaluate& discuss

recreate

freestyle

Design