Thank you all for the collaboration in the blog. I think I got where I wanted now but I still have two different but similar ideas going on and on in my head related what i have explained before in the blog.
First idea: my aim is to design myself the "default" font. That is a font that you can use for every design. Therefore it would have, instead of the typical bold, italics,etc., a great deal of possibilities from sophisticated, elegant, beautiful to punched, cut off, messy, etc. So that you can adapt it for all your designs (a heavy metal band or a fashion magazine).
Besides, I would show examples of designs (one per category)
The other idea: to put together 2 opposites: stereotypes and anti-types (the word anti-types means there's no different "types"/kinds of design, annihilating every category that we can find -like the "list" mentioned before-). So it would be a visual representation of what it would be, "design" with just one possibility or design as it really is, with all its richness. So no design and design, to show the importance of our career.
This could take the form of a book with two covers -the back and the front- that you need to turn over in order to read/see one or the other. One side would be really boring and the other one really rich (antitypes and stereotypes).
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
Can you re-write this C? It's quite confusing...
i think something quite similar to your default font thing has been done before...check out http://www.letterlabor.de/
it's almost like redesignig helvetica...quite a lot of work...hope this is helpful
pedro
Sort of agree with Pedro about this in terms of redesigning something as broadly functional as Helvetica... its on par with redesigning the road sign system!
I'm not sure that it's the same, I wouldn't redesign an existing one. I would design different fonts (though with a link so i can unify them) and group them all as my default font.
And with one font I have a big range of design covered.
16 weeks to design one font?
Nooo, no 1 font! I think you didn't understand my idea. The evolution of this project comes from the other blog I posted before. I'm trying to summarize here.
16 weeks to design 25 fonts (or so, depending on how it goes) and do one appropriate design for every single one. Then would be to present the outcome which I don't have very clear but, for the amount of information could be a book. So, I would have my own designs/layouts and a broad font that you can download to install in your computer and use "always" as it's got completely different styles to use in different occasions.
so it's one font, yes, but so many different as well... No italics, no bold or light but blurred, scratched, dotted, elegant,beautiful, ugly, broken, sophisticated, etc.
Is it understandable now? sorry.
Pedro, I was having a look at that website but I couldn't find the similarities, but I'm not sure if I looked deep enough (could you please let me know if I missed something?) Is not he doing regular, medium and bold as the family font?
I would have a big family with different PERSONALITIES (as this is my theme) instead of just different stroke sizes: smart,provocative, sophisticated, heavy, punk, funny, cultural, broken,etc.
Like THE DEFAULT FONT FOR NON-DESIGNERS. That could be the title. To help non-designers to make choices when/if designing.
Please let me know and I'll forget about it...
Wow, pedro thanks i found it!!
I think i still can deal with it as my approach is contemporary and his is based on history. What do people think?
The other family font made out of 4 personalities:
What they have in common is their starting points: They are all inspired by the work of the French punchcutter Robert Granjon from the 16th century. They are also all influenced by the medical theory of the four humours, developed by Hippocrates in the 4th century bc, that makes an attempt in characterizing four personality types. These four types are the Phlegmatic, the Melancholic, the Choleric and the Sanguine. During the development, trying to incorporate these character traits into the typefaces became less of a priority, but the original idea can still be found in all of them
Post a Comment