Assignment 1C: Expressive Typography

Version 1

Magnify

 

Bloom
Fall
Collapse
Shoot
Scatter
Invisible
Waves
Fade
Moving

Final Version

Magnify – Increased the scale of the “magnifying glass”
Bloom – Included “flowers” that are not bloomed yet to fill up space
Collapse – Increased size for the object that starts the fall. Added particles falling too.
Fall – Decreased size of “F LL”. Repetition for letter “A” with changes in size from small to big to show that it’s falling towards the viewer.
Shoot – Increased size of the hoop and change its type to make it more obvious
Scatter – No change
Invisible – Made use of the space and decreased the amount of black shown on the letters to make it more “invisible”
Waves – No change
Fade – No change
Moving – Changed the layout and made use of the space

Assignment 1B: Letter Croppings

Letter Croppings

Cropping letters to the point before they become illegible! I tried to show the unique characteristics of each letter, e.g. the tail/descender for the letter ‘p’, the arc for the letter ‘m’, and the vertex for letter ‘v’.

Typefaces used: Arial Black, Bodoni 72, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Didot, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Myriad Pro, Times New Roman (randomly picked haha)

1st Version

1 (m), 2 (e), 3 (H), 4 (s), 5 (y), 6 (x), 7 (f),  8 (A)

1 (m), 3 (H), 7 (f): has too much white space at the bottom/side

Final Version

1 (m): Cropped m even further. Kept the serifs of the “m” visible to indicate that it is neither “w” nor “E”

3 (H): Scaled up “H” to reduce white space

7 (f): Scaled up “f” to reduce white space

 

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Assignment 1A: Letter Drawings

Letter Drawings

Some observations I have made while drawing my name in both serif and sans serif styles:

Serif: Serifs, thick and thin stroke weight/width for different strokes

Sans Serif: No serifs, same stroke weight/width throughout

Both: Has the same cap height and baseline since it’s all capital letters, different kerning (space between letters?) between each letter and each word

 

Transitional typeface: extremely thick and thin stroke weight, the contrast of stroke weight is higher

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