Advanced Typography - Task 3 : Type Expression and Application

out of all design proposal ideas, I Chose to expand and continue my old font that I do from last semester final task, which I named it Glyphoid, but might change the name later on.

at the beginning of task 3 last semester, most of the students are told to do uppercase letter, but somehow my font became a lowercase.

I kinda ignored the instruction to do the uppercase first then followed the lowercase instead of doing the opposite.

Letter Constructions Week 9-10

I used my old files to reuse the guide and baselines. I copied the hogb so I could know the position of the guides because I thought I could not move or copy paste the guidelines when turns out its just locked.

lowercase letter progress 👇

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fig.2.2.2. lowercase progress, Week 9

the process of my uppercase letter, and I tried my bast to make it consistent and use the same width and height for each letters I also have decided the radius for each curves of the letter.

fig.2.2.3. radius adjustment for most font , Week 9

because I already finished the lowercase letter I just decided to put it on the facebook post submission, but turns out I have to put it side to side.

after the feedback session I continued, on doing my numbers and punctuation, I tried to use the main font reference which is Myriad Pro.

the punctuation that I struggle the most on are the Ampersand "&"

fig.2.2.4. Progress of the rest of the letters, Week 9

fig.2.2.5. changing the lowercase a to match the uppercase, Week 10

fig.2.2.6. numbers progress 0-5, Week 10

fig.2.2.7. numbers progress 5-9, Week 10

fig.2.2.8. ampersand and at symbol, Week 10

fig.2.2.9. whole letters facebook pos, Week 10

Importing fonts - Week 11

fig.2.3.1. fontforge attempts, Week 11

when I start importing the fonts, I thought I could only use font forge because the fontlab7 trial has already ended far back in semester 1, so I ended up using font forge on half of the week trying to get used to it. its very annoying and confusing to use at the start, but when I got used to it, its just as annoying as it is. like what do you mean I have to scale them one by one using the transform and you can only use % ?? I literally have to use a calculator to count back the pixel it currently have by using the current width and the actual width from illustrator. ONE BY ONE 😢. when its time to export the punctuations, I just gave up and moved to fontlab8 instead because I heard that my friend said that it works, just the trial is 10 days only so I need to finish it by the trial time.

fig.2.3.2. fontlab 8 attempts, Week 11

I re-imported everything to fontlab 8 and the progress is far more quick. there are just some small problem where it shows red line under certain glyphs so I have to re-upload a couple of times

fig.2.3.3. kerning and sidebearings, Week 11

then I quickly start on doing the side-bearings and kerning for every word possible.

Font Presentation - week 12

fig,2.4.1. font presentation progress, Week 12

for font presentation, at the start I don't really get what to do with them, it feels stiff and I cant get the ideas in my head. so instead I just started on picking the color palette first. I scroll around and found myself liking this lime green color so I went with it and chose blue for contrast.

I started them with making the font informations , then the random words, the most unique out of all the letters, a poster with quotes and the randomized alphabet with the punctuations,

Final Font Presentation

fig.2.4.2. font presentation 1 - JPEG, Week 12

fig.2.4.3. font presentation 2 - JPEG, Week 12

fig.2.4.4. font presentation 3 - JPEG, Week 12

fig.2.4.5. font presentation 4 - JPEG, Week 12

fig.2.4.6. font presentation 5 - JPEG, Week 12

pdf

fig.2.4.7. font presentations - PDF, Week 12

Font Application - Week12 -Week13

fig.2.5.1. backgrounds for honor standby, Week 13

fig.2.5.2. poster for applications mockup, Week 13

fig.2.5.3. facebook submission, Week 13

Final Font Application

fig.2.5.4. font application 1 - Honor Standby (Overall Visual Design), Week 13

fig.2.5.5. font application 2 - Honor Standby (Personalized Signature Design), Week 13

fig.2.5.6. font application 3 - Honor Standby (Clock Design), Week 13

fig.2.5.7. font application 4 -poster mockup, Week 13

fig.2.5.8. font application 5 - sticker mockup , Week 13

fig.2.5.9. font applications - PDF, Week 13

TASK 3 FINAL RESULT

Font Download

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fig.2.6.1. Font Information, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.2. Finalized Letteforms, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.3. Font Persentation 1, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.4. Font Persentation 2, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.5. Font Persentation 3, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.6. Font Persentation 4, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.7. Font Persentation 5, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.8. font application 1 - Honor Standby (Overall Visual Design), Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.9. font application 2 - Honor Standby (personalized signature design ), Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.10. font application 2 - Honor Standby ( clock design ), Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.11. font application 3 - Poster Mockup, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.12. font application 5 - sticker mockup, Week 14 (20/07/25)

fig.2.6.13. Task 3-Final outcome, Week 14 (20/07/25)

FONT TESTER

FEEDBACK

Week 9 :

General Feedback :-

Specific Feedback : its good, I could continue with expanding my font from last semester

Week 10:

General Feedback :-

Specific Feedback : when i make the lowercase i need to put it beside of the uppercase letter.

Week 11 :

General Feedback :-

Specific Feedback : i could start on importing it to fontlab or fontforge.

Week 12:

General Feedback :-

Specific Feedback : I could continue doing my font presentation and Application

Week 13

General Feedback :-

Specific Feedback : I could start submitting the work to HONOR Competition and finish my eport

REFLECTION

Experience

my experience during the making of this task 3 has been quite easy and less trouble because I chose the font that I already made myself so its just referencing and adjusting them to match each other. Since I made the font that I wanted to expand myself, I'm already familiar with the structure and implementing it in a new letter is quite easy. The steps that troubles me the most is when I'm making Ampersand, it took me a lot of attempts to actually shape it how I want it to be and to make it look like an actual ampersand logo.

Observations

During the process of developing the font, I observed that punctuations like bracket have their own height and position that I actually paid attention to before Mr. Vinod Point it out during the week 12 class. Moreover, when making these punctuations and number I actually have to make calculations like how my original width is 135 and then I eithe rhave to divide it by 3 or two to get an accurate viwe of the punctuations, for example the ">" and "<"

Findings

I found that when developing the font especially exporting it from illustrator to font forge would took a lot more patience. I thought font forge would work like how font lab do but its far more complicated especially when it comes to resizing the path or shapes. I also found that when exploring on how I want to present my font, that my font would fit a doodle type of contents

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