Your assignments this week:
1. Post your three favorite characters from your pixel typeface here on the blog.
2. Read pages 12-25 in Thinking with Type.
3. Based on the 'missing' language character we talked about in class, create a new character for the roman alphabet, and draw it five ways so it will fit visually with the five classic typefaces Jenson, Baskerville, Bodoni, Clarendon, and Futura.
Steps to accomplish this:
- Think about what symbol or character might be missing from our alphabet- it could represent a sound, a thought, an emotion, etc.
- Draw a glyph that represents it. Keep it as simple, but unique, as possible. Draw it many times till it becomes comfortable and natural.
- Begin to formalize it. How would it look drawn with a broadnib pen? A dip/quill pen? Where does the stroke become fat and where thin? Where would serifs go?
- Draw a version of your character for each classic typeface that incorporates that face's unique typographic features (i.e. stroke contrast, stroke axis, geometry, serif style, etc.)
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