University of Kansas | Visual Communication Design | Graphic Design
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READINGS
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They are not all fonts
So you want to create a typeface
How to design typefaces
Manual:
FontLab Manual (on the server: download)
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Modular Fonts
bit mapped fonts of the early 90's. screens and printer were only 72dpi.
example | example | early Emigre
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A modular font is a built system. Modular fonts are based on a system (set) of simple shapes (toolbox)
repeated, flipped and flopped. The challege will be to make something simple and beautiful. A modular
font can look geometric or it also can look orgainic it all depends on your defined toolbox. You can
design your letters filled in, outlined or a combination.
Looking at history. History of BlackLetter.
above Albrecht Dürer 1525
Fregio Mecano, Italian origin, 1920s
