Realise there's no typography thread here, any lover here?

Well I like seeing pretty fonts, but not sure if I am a lover or not.

I did this when I am bored, well it has some fonts in it.

It's good to hear that you like seeing fonts, my friend.

But but...that piece is kind....of hard to read.

Haha yeah I know right, but well...

You should share your stuff as well dude.

i like typography. im not really good and graphic composition, so whenever somebody asks me to do some graphics (poster, cards etc), i will usually stick to typography.

then i met a friend who's totally into typography, and he said i'm too undisiciplined. he's like hardcore typography and can talk about the difference between kernings in arial and verdana and the big deal about it. entah aku tak paham sangat bila dia cakap the whole typography lingo hahaha.

now i'm a bit more cautious. nanti kena kutuk dengan dia lagi ahhahaha.

I like Celtic like font style, but not crazy into it.

I like Nokia Pure font, Segoe, and Signika ...usually I see the new typeface is the combination of old typeface that exist. Really interested to learn, but sometimes it a bit of hassle as need to pay attention to details. Sigh!

Hi, if you don't mind I'm asking.

What font did you use to make this ? Looks awesome albeit hard to read.

Yeah sure, some of it are "Colours of Autumn", "Quite Chocolatey", and "Ventography".

I just took whats interesting from random websites on the handwriting section.

Wow, I don't understand the fuss of it as well, maybe he's just being oversensitive, or maybe you had accidentally scratch on his ego a little bit? Haha

Would be more interesting if u could share your works!

Found them, thanks so much.

got any work from u bro? i would like to see also

Hi guys, Im into typography too. Will share some of my work later.

Looking forward

Looking forward to some of TS's work too.

yellowranger
this was made 2years ago on my 1st semester,since my class was totally after 8pm at that sem

be noted that i dont hv any art design background
it was just a tribute ive done toward my university
and kept underneath my personal storage till now

so pls, im willing to heard any typo-hardcore advice/bash
just made it clear on how do I fix/upgrade my typo skill

and yeah, it was my 1st time doing typo-related stuff






just put aside my signature down there, that was a silly thing ive made on that time

azarimy
perhaps ur friend could share some of his/her insight/beginner advice
im not taking this art field seriously, just as a way to present my feel n message tho


got some bookmark typo which all of my friend kept proud of till now, ill find and share it later

This post has been edited by fotosintesis: Dec 5 2013, 12:22 PM

Hey someone got any opinion regarding this matter?
My graphic lecturer said it's something unethical to modified any font properties as example such as distorting it to make a "condensed version" of the font.

For my self, I will do as I damn please with them font, as long as it's not becoming weird to look. Fist rule of design, there's no rules lol

Whats your say?

Your lecturer is correct. Type designers spent weeks, months, some even years fine tuning, perfecting and tweaking each individual font so that it looks best in a sentence or used as an individual character. Therefor please use it as it was designed. The only thing you can change is the scale/size. This is how I can tell whether a person is a desktop publisher versus a true graphic designer.

Let me also add. To break the rule you must first know the rules.

Thanks for your valuable insight

Maybe as you said the rule of no tweaking the font can be applied as an iron rule in a long text design like a book or something,
but if we want to use the font in a font based design, or heading in poster, I still believe the font is open for any tweak,
pan, scale, distortion, perspective, 3D and all that.

It will be so restricting to use the font as is without the possibility to tweak it to fit the design.

Type in a book or body text is a no no to any form of distortion. You want it as legible as possible otherwise you won't be able to convey the message to the readers.

There are many graphic designers and all of them has their own individual styles. But at the end of the day, and if you notice carefully there is always a reason and rational as to why they break a rule in the first place i.e distort a font etc...



If you look at the poster above (not my work, just some random image to illustrate an example), it may come across to you that most of the fonts are distorted. But if you examine it closely you'll realize that it is actually perspective distortion. In this case it works because perspective is around us. The designer only breaks the rule because he knows the rules of perspective as an artist/designer in order for him to convey a message across visually.

By doing this, he achieved greater impact and successfully engaged his audience as opposed to a paragraph of text with the same words.

My 2 cents.

Very nice of you to share the example and insight there, thanks!

what software do you use for creating font?

I have created my own fonts before but without the help of a computer. Purely mechanical using pen and ink.

Adobe illustrator would be a suitable software to create the form of individual characters and numbers.

To make it into a usable font you can type with, that I have no idea.

I'm guessing you probably need to send your newly created fonts to a font foundry for them to make it into a true type font.

They might even buy it from you if they like it!

Actually I've created my own font before, for non-latin support. I used FontCreator & FontForge. I just want to know what others are using. And if I could, I want to ask about diacritic marks.

try google Fontstruct. a nice way to create your fonts. nice site, i've used it before

Thanks for sharing

i find fonts really inspiring eventhough i'm an architecture student. i always browse dafont website.

Oh I love to differentiate fonts by their names too whenever my friends are using them and they just went blur.

Love Jawi Typo? http://www.jawipatani.com/
Happy exploring! https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3233724

For all typography lover, need help to suggest free font suitable for "shawls & more" .

Salam Kawanku! Kenapa merumitkan Jawi Typo?
http://www.mudah.my/Jawi+dan+Arabic+Taipset-44736489.htm
http://www.nonosoft.jifisa.net/download-no...hot-free-trial/
http://www.ejawi.net/tulisan-jawi-adobe-illustrator/
http://emashq.com/
Semoga BerManfaat dan Selamat Maju Jaya
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3233724

Baru menceburi this type of art.

Not bad. Lines could be a little smoother. Good effort. (:

Did you manage to figure out what font to use for your "shawls and more"

Just linking https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4753488