Tiptoe Serif
Tiptoe designed by Teresa Carretta
A a
upper case
ABCDEFGHI JKLMNOPQ RSTUVWXYZ
lower case
abcdefghi jklm nopqrstuvwxyz
12 pt
Oh silly me
14 pt
Oh silly me
18 pt
Oh silly me
24 pt
Oh silly me
30 pt
Oh silly me
36 pt
Oh silly me
Oh silly me
36 pt
Oh silly me
30 pt
Oh silly me
24 pt
Oh silly me
18 pt
Oh silly me
14 pt
Oh silly me
12 pt
Oh silly me
6 pt 8 pt 10 pt
Oh silly me
Oh silly me
Oh silly me
Oh silly me
60 pt
Oh silly me
48 pt
Oh silly me
48 pt
Oh silly me
Oh silly me
Oh silly me
60 pt
6 pt 8 pt 10 pt
FONT FEATURES Negative space
Rounded terminal Pointed serif
Positive stress angle (Old Style Geralde)
FONT FEATURES
Rr
Open countert Small aperture
Lightly bracketed terminal
Asymmetric and unbracketed serif
36 pt
TASSELLATE
24 pt
Alt-J Bite chunks out of me, you're a shark and I'm swimming. My heart still thumps as I bleed. And all your friends come sniffing. Triangles are my favorite shape: three points here two lines meet. Toe to toe, back to back, let's go, my love it's very late. 'Til morning comes, let's tessellate.
14/16 pt
Go alone my flower and keep my whole lovely you. Vild green stones alone my lover. And keep us on my heart. Three guns and one goes off, one's empty, one's not quick enough. One burn, one red, one green. Search the graves while the camera spins. Chunks of you will sink down to seals. Blubber rich mourning. They’ll nosh you up, yes they’ll nosh the love away, but it’s fair to say. You will still haunt me.
Triangles are my favorite shape:three points where two lines meet. Toe to toe, back to back, let's go, my love it's very late. 'Til morning comes, let's tessellate. Go alone my flower and keep my whole lovely you. Vild green stones alone my lover. And keep us on my heart. Three guns and one goes off, one’s empty, one’s not quick enough. Triangles are my favorite shape:three points where two lines meet. Toe to toe, back to back, let’s go, my love it’s very late. ‘Til morning comes, let’s tessellate.
TOE TO TOE, BACK TO BACK, LET’S GO, MY LOWE IT’S WERY LATE. UNTIL MORNING COME, LET’S TESSELLATE. UPPER CASE
H DIN ALTERNATE BOLD was the starting point for the creation of this new font, called Tiptoe.
Addition of asymmetrical serifs, rounded on one side and squared on the other.
Slight modification of the calligraphic stroke.
TIPTOE Here we can observe the final result of the font Tiptoe Serif, in letter H.
Tessellation is a process, which produce using the repetition of a geometric shape with no overlaps and no gaps, a twodimensional plane, everything fits neatly into each other. He wants to end the arguing and get in bed “toe to toe, back to back”, and tessellate. Perhaps getting intimate with her, will help him get over his ex-lover (the third party in this love triangle).
GO ALONE MY FLOVER, AND KEEP MY VHOLE LOWELY YOU. She should leave now while he still remembers her for what he’s loved, not this distorted vile being.
26/30 pt
14/16 pt
The first stanza is about a serious argument, quite possibly about the third party in this love triangle. In the midst or the aftermath of the argument, either she complains to her friends or they were observers, so they were sniffing around. The subtext is one of real physical pain. He sings with a yearning masochism. She makes him thrilled and afraid, like a swimmer who sees a shark’s fin, yet he commands her to “bite chunks out of [him]” and when she does, his heart beats as he bleeds. It’s the idea of passion through pain. It’s also interesting to note that a shark’s approach is signified by a Triangle shaped dorsal fin. Newman is referring to a love triangle, wherein each point is a person, generally one person is the target of the affections of two others, who resent each other. Newman is being sarcastic, it’s not his favourite shape at all. Also, triangles are one of the shapes that naturally tessellate, along with squares, hexagons and odd shaped pentagon..
12/14 pt
36 pt
TIPTOE
FONT STRUCTURE CAP LINE
ASCENDER
ARM X-HEIGHT
LEG (disconnected to the stem)
GLYPH VIDTH
ROUNDED TERMINAL BASELINE
How Tiptoe Serif would look like in a poster
Lehni 12.12.11 Staatliche Akademie
Urs 18 Uhr der Bidenden Kunste
Wortrag Neubau 2 Stuttgart
MEASUREMENTS The construaction of the font is made by use less point as possible, in order to obtain the perfect curvature.Every point is poistioned along the tangencies.
Zoom in of one letter. That’s the expanded version of letter c.
FONT FEATURES
Hamburgefonsc Rounded and pointed terminals are mixed in a unique way
SKELETON
FINAL VITH GLYPHS
EXPANDED
Same glyph, simply mirroed
Same glyph, simply mirroed
Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen Typeface designed by Teresa Carretta VUP 18/19 Prof. Antonino Benincasa Gian Marco Favretto Maximilian Boiger Calligraphy Vorkshop by Mag. Art. Eva Pรถll Font created with Illustrator & Fontself