#modular typeface

Overall I am pleased with my modular typeface , I found this a very difficult task as there are so many typefaces out there , it is hard to do something which hasn’t bene done before. I feel as though I made my typeface unique to me with the structure of my letters , different opacities and shades of blue. 

Next after focusing on colour I decided to try out two different shades of orange as my background. The reason I chose orange was because orange is a complementary colour to blue. I decided to go with the lighter orange as it contrasted well against the different shades of blue. 

Emigre has been awarded with the 1994 Chrysler award for innovation in design and the 1998 Charles Nyplels award for excellence in the field of typography. I have included some examples of Emigre’s work above which I will be looking towards for inspiration when creating my own modular typeface. 

I attempted to maintain consistency in my typeface by first creating a system to adhere to. For example, the main body of each letter is 2 in height in order to create a basline for the entire typeface. I have also ensured that letters such as 'a' and 'e' were 2 in height, whilst letters like 'b' and 'f' would be 3. The point of implemeting this system is to create consistency and flow across all letters before making any aesthetic changes. Therefore, after establishing and incorporating this system I went back and updated some of the letters, namely 'f', 'g' and 'y', which looked stunted and and too condensed. To improve each of these letters I extended the descender of the 'g' and 'y' letters by one, and extended the 'f' below the baseline by one.

After sketching out a few ideas and prototyping some of the more difficult letters on FontStruct, I've finalised the design of my modular typeface. I'm hoping that when it comes to making it, I won't have to make too many changes. However, I will have to reduce the scale at which I have sketched the typeface out at in order to ensure that it will not look stretched or take away from the overall flow.

Les En-Fonts was published by Ulster University and is filled with typefaces created by students of the university. I thought this book in particular would be incredibly helpful as all the fonts were created using FontStruct, the very same program I will be using. This book is filled with incredibly clean and wonderful typefaces, and contains an array of stylised fonts. I was particularly drawn to the likes of 'Billow', 'Adont' and 'Alejandro', as I feel that the rounded and more absract approach is incredibly effective and wonderful to look at. Therefore, within my own typeface I will attempt to hone in on using more rounded and clean shapes, which I feel will give it more flow and tie the letters to one another.