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Great job. I saw this font on Designer News yesterday and downloaded it instantly. I think creating a font from scratch could become a designer's rite of passa
by bbx 13y ago
Great job. I saw this font on Designer News yesterday and downloaded it instantly.
I think creating a font from scratch could become a designer's rite of passage. It involves usability, aesthetics, and technical knowledge (kerning, weights, character encoding, horizontal and vertical metrics...). I always thought about creating one myself but usually ended up browsing the web for original and better designed fonts.
You got me questioning my behavior.
- barsky 13y agoPossibly, but graphic design and type design are vastly different fields. A good graphic designer isn't necessarily a good type designer.
- mortenjorck 13y agoIndeed. A good visual designer should know how to take a typeface apart, but you really need to become a type designer to put one together.
- sprokolopolis 13y agoWhile this is true, type design will make you a better graphic designer. Designing a font is one of the better ways of training your eyes, becoming sensitive to subtlety, trusting your optical perception over raw measurements, learning about the interaction between shapes and space, etc.