Final Typeface Design

I named it 'Pipes', as I felt that it just when with the style of the font.

 

The outlines of each glyph were created in Illustrator and the grids made it very easy to create perfect curves. It was then transferred into Fontographer, where it was scaled and aligned.
 

I found that using Fontographer was one of the hardest parts of this task. A great piece of software that it is, I still found that sometimes it wouldn't let me align a glyph properly and every time I saved the project, each glyph would change position and scale.
 

The design was then outputted in TrueTypeface (TTF) and OpenType (OTF) format, for installation on both Mac and Windows.
 

'Pipes' By Zi

 

Pipes - Lowercase

 

Pipes - Uppercase

 

Pipes - Numbers & Symbols

 

Pipes - Full Typeface

 

Final Typeface Sketches

All the designs I had created on paper, were in a sans serif style.

So I decided to do a few in a serif style and much preferred it.
 

This is the final typeface design, including Lower and Upper Cases as well as Numbers and Symbols.
 

The design had a lot of curves so I made a curved template out of card and used it to draw out the curves of each glyph.
 

 Lowercase
 

 Uppercase
 

 Numbers & Symbols

 

Experimental Typeface Designs

Another way, in which I like to let my creativity flow, is just to mess around a little and create drafts in Adobe Photoshop.

 

These are just a random selection of designs I did, where I translated the grids on paper to the grids on screen and tried to stick by these grids.
 

 

Initial Typeface Designs Sketches

The first part of this semester work was to create a typeface and these are just a few sketches and designs created in the early stages, just to get a feel of designing type.

 

I tried to keep it quite clean and simple because I didn't want to over complicate things when I would later take it in to Adobe Illustrator and then Fontographer.