Table of Content
01. Prologue 08. Inspirations 11. Advancement 19. Details 31. Glyphs 39. Aplications
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The Cretaceous is usually noted for being the last period of the “Age of Dinosaurs�. But does not mean that people current days cannot see or imagine what the forms of the dinosaur. For many years archeology all over the world has discovered over 700 different species of dinosaurs. However paleontologists believe that there are many more new and different dinosaur species still to be discovered. So in this project i will invite the audience to discover the giant relics in different forms of typefaces.
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The concept behind these typefaces was inspired by the discovery of the ancient fossils of dinosaurs; in current days people are related ancient fossil as the image of memory, and secrets of past days. Furthermore, disappeared millions of years ago the dinosaur’s fossil also can symbolize the process of something that’s unclear and create a curiosity.
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Design: Yufandri Yapola Year: 2015 Styles: Serif and, illustrative Weights: Bold Formats: OTF Features Mac and PC TTF
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With typography as the art media to express feelings and able to tell a story, this project is about creating an illustrative typeface that can give and express the feeling of ancient and old memory, and represent the nature sense, by seeing throught the details of the typeface.
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iNSPIRATIONS
The typeface design was inpired by the various form and part of dinosaur fossil, which is extinct during cretaceous period, and the ancient cretaceous forest as the habitant of dinosaur during that period.
The design idea of this typeface is by creating letter forms using the part of the skeleton found in the dinosaur body, without adjusting the proportions of the bones (random) or having an unnatural number and shapes of bones in that one letter, and with ancient floral that inspired by the cretaceous forest to decorate some part of the typefaces. The choose of using ancient floral as decorative is to adding more details and give the sense of nature to the typeface.
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The first step of creating this typeface is by learning and took a reference of different form and part of dinosaur fossil, combining it into form of letter and after that start creates the rough form of the typeface. The base form as the guide for this typeface is Georgia Bold. The approach for this typeface form is to make it look asymmetrical but yet symmetrical, for the concentration of readability issue.
After finishing the rough sketch of the letter form, the next step is to start create clear outline, which to see the clear visual on how the form of the final letter.
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The idea also is to give some spaces or hole on the form of the letter in term to add the decorative ancient floral at the end of the details, so the final form of it did not looks crowded and bold, because of too many thing added on it.
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After finished the clear outline, the next step is too adding the details, in term to add the texture of the bones using pointillism technique. The final detail is too add the decorative floral that surround the letter.
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1.2 advancement There are some details that added during the creating of the typeface. The reason to put some details on the typeface is because this typeface is not meant to be body copy.
The details of ancient floral decorative with colors, added surround the letter, to give more the sense of nature and ancient.
The Crack details all over the typeface. Again is to give the sense of fossil that already buried for long time and fused with the rock.
This typeface was proposed for headline or tittle text, so when creating an illustrative typeface that meant for display people will expect some details when they see it, and also because the first idea of this typeface is to create a typeface that can represent the sense of nature and the feeling of ancient relics, so with some details it can help present the sense and feelings of the typeface.
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Pointillism technique is used and applied on the whole part of the typeface to create a texture of the bone and to create the color tone and shadow.
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ALPHABETS
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NUMERICS
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SYMBOLS
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PROPORTIONS
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Special Thanks
Winnie Tan Panji Mardhika Vera Sastra Adi Candra Felicia Tanjaya Irene Vera Lydia Tee Ily Dayana Nur Fatimah
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