Artist Typeface

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Artist Typeface Shaun Clarke


A large range of Fonts avaiable on the Font Bureau website, the categories are serif, sans serif, slab serif, script, wacky and symbol, some of which as shown here. According to www.cruxcreative.com, there are 3 points which makes a good font: Legibility, kerning and consistant characters.

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Javier Mariscal Born February 1950 Artist and designer www.chicoyrita.com


Colours often used by Javier Mariscal

Samples and experiments of Javier Mariscal’s work. I found it quite difficult to create a font from Javier’s work, as he incorprates quite a lot of typography within his art. I decided to do a carbon copy of his fonts, and create a ‘template’ for development.

Possible fonts derived from Mariscal’s work Sample of artists work

Media Samples


Armin Hofmann Born June 1920 Graphic Designer www.designersjournal.net


Samples of artists work

Colours often used by Armin Hofmann

Possible font derived by Hofmann’s work

When designing the font I tried creating the type from the left, like the numbers, however it didn’t work. For example, the letter ‘E’ wouldn’t be noticable or legible. It would be the same for any other letter that had a vertical line at the left. Trial and error allowed me to develop the font shown right.

Media Samples


Ben Vautier Born July 1935 French Artist www.Ben-vautier.com


Colours often used by Ben Vautier Samples of Ben Vautier’s work, like Javier Mariscal, Ben Vautier uses a lot of typography within his work. Experiments show how font would look using different media. For example, ‘no place like home’ was creates by candle wax and paint, ‘Blue is just a word’ was created using liquid latex, the right sample peeled off Samples of artists work

Media Samples


Arman Born November 1928 American Artist www.arman.com


Samples of artists work

Colours often used by Arman

Possible font derived by Arman’s work

Media Samples


Wim Crouwel Born 1928 in Groningen

Dutch graphic designer and typographer www.iconofgraphics.com/Wim-Crouwel/


Colours often used by Wim Crouwel

Possible font derived by Crouwel’s work

Samples of artists work

Media Samples


Tauba Auerbach Born 1981 www,taubaauerbach.com


Colours often used by Tauba Auerbach Tauba auerbach is a very interesting designer, with extremely creative designs. She uses of typography in her work to express opinions. I was drawn to the ‘counters’ the insides of letters, I decided to create a font based on the counters, shown below.

Possible font derived by Auerbach’s work

Samples of artists work

Media Samples


Matthew Dent Born 1981 in Bangor, Wales British Graphic designer www.matthewdent.co.uk


Colours often used by Matt Dent

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Patrick Heron Born 1920 in Leeds English Painter www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/patrick-heron-1278


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Samples of artists work

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Tauba Auerbach

Media treatment

Initial development ideas


Experimenting with colour

Experiments


Initial development ideas


Experiments


Media treatment

Initial development ideas



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