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Sharp - Ends on the letters and the structure of the letters make this font look sharp.

Rigid - The font is made up of lines and edges but without curves. This gives it a rigid personality. 

Heavy - The formation of the letters give it a feeling of weight, as though it was made of a heavy                       material

Keywords:
Movement - Varying weights of the dots give the letters a since of direction
Loose - Spaces in between dots give this font a feeling of loose freedom. It is not held together by connection of the dots.
Ghostly - The letters are lighter due to the spacing between dots on each letter form. Since it is not a                   solid object, the letters look light and as if they are fading away.

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This is the sample text from fontstruct. My font still needs adjustments, but it is getting there.

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Fontstruct exploration fonts

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Garamond

Garamond was created by Claude Garamond in the sixteenth century. He based his romans on types by Francesco Griffo. He later refined his work and added his own concepts to create his own style. After Claude Garamond’s death, his type made its way to Christoph Plantin and still exist in the Plantin-Moretus Museum today. The French printer Jean Jannon created a specimen of typefaces that had similar characteristics to the Garamond types. Jannon’s work disappeared and was rediscovered around 200 years later and was then wrongly attributed to Garamond. The Garamond typeface has variations in stroke width, resembling handwriting. It is a serif font, and extenders from letters have a downward slope.

Keywords: Legible, Organic, Classic

Serifa

Serifa is a font designed by Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a type designer from Switzerland. Frutiger has designed many type styles and fonts, such as Univers, that are widely used today.  It is a slab serif font based on Univers. Slab serif fonts are fonts that contain think, block-like serifs. Serifa is geometric, making it more structured than other curvy type designs. Since Serifa has a geometric structure, it works well with large font sizes. 

Keywords: Slab-serif, Geometric, Thick

Platelet

Platelet is a font type that got its inspiration from a California licence plate. It was designed by Conor Mangat. Mangat is a designer that was born in London and moved to southern California for a design program. Platelet has a fanciful design, making it more difficult to use in normal texts, however this different design allows it to be used in various other situations, such as licence plates. Platelets letter forms are thick and curvy, making them legible from a distance. Some of the letters have unique characteristics, such as the lowercase "b". The "b" has the form of and uppercase "B" in the lowercase character. 

Keywords: Round, Curves, Thick

Phase 3 Process

Phase 3 of Project 1. Using 3 sizes, 3 font types, 2 colors, rules, and background color. 

More bearsbearsbears

Look at these bears. More to be scanned in soon

Look at all these damn bears

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Being able to use color was a nice addition to the first part of this project. Using color helps certain parts of of the page pop out more than the surrounding area. I stuck with a consistent color on the words and worked with changing the background color and placement on the page to change how it is looked at. This was more fun than the first part

Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger is a famous typographer and graphic designer. Born in Switzerland, Frutiger experimented with various handwriting styles, going away from the formal cursive handwriting that he was told to use. He went into printing, where his work would become well known. Frutiger studied at Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of applied arts, and went into calligraphy there. Frutiger went on to be recruited by Deberny Et Peignot, where he created the typefaces “President”, “Meridien”, and Ondin”. Frutiger also created the typefaces Univers and Egyptienne, which were both commissioned for photocomposition. As his work became more popular, Frutiger was asked to design typefaces for things like the Paris Metro and the Charles de Gualle Airport. Frutiger has won many awards for his renowned work, and continues to work to this day. 

Frutiger also created the Univers grid that showed his Univers typeface in its various forms. The Univers grid uses a number system, showing the various forms of the typeface based on changing stroke weights and kerning. It is an organized way of showing the changes of the font.

Bearsbearsbears

Some digital bears