MAJOR PROJECT For the Major Project we were given a great deal of time to develop our typeface and code our type sampler. To assist in the creation of our fonts Andy introduced us to the program FontForge. FontForge allows you to import designed letters and generate them into a .OTF file, which are used to install and use fonts on your computer. Andy also supplied us with an Illustrator template where we could design our letters then export as .SVG’s to open in FontForge. As an initial experiment with the programs, I created a font using just rectangles, called Cyclops. The font was quite simple but it allowed me to develop the toolchain that I would use to create the font that would be submitted for the final submission. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to continue my ideas of a font that offered playfulness in its design and drew up many iterations of letters that appeared soft and bubbly. When struggling to come up with an Idea this way I decided to try another modular font, this time creating the shapes in Illustrator. I started assembling letters using just two shapes, a square and a quadrant, but wanted to add extra curve to my shapes and used a macaroni shape that was two squares high. Once my shapes were established, and I started to design letters, I realised the forms PAGE 10
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