Month: December 2015

Obviously I want my typeface to have some kind of purpose, not necessarily to be used on an important document or as the new font for IKEA, but I didn’t see any point in creating something that was already in use. When I was conducting research to find inspiration on what kind of typeface I wanted to create, I looked at copious amounts of geometric fonts and there was definitely an empty hole that my typeface could fill.

Most geometric typefaces are all very similar. The most common using thin lines combined with bold shapes, but I could never find one that used repetitive lines in a way that filled out a letter (similar to what I want to achieve). Below you can see a collage of the fonts that I believed to represent geometric typefaces as a whole. As you can see there is definitely nothing out there that is similar to what I am trying to achieve.

Common Geometric Typefaces

One challenge that crossed my path whilst creating my font was whether or not to make it Serif or Sans-Serif. Typically, geometric fonts are sans-serif as the serif disrupts the flow and the symmetry of the lettering but I thought it would be an interesting twist and it would give me my own kind of ‘style’. I tried playing around with this but I didn’t think it worked at all. In stead of creating my own style it looked like I had used the pen tool on Illustrator with my eyes closed. I scraped this idea and just decided to stick to a generic sans-serif geometric typeface.

I really enjoyed creating my geometric typeface. It gave me a chance to experiment with different tools and skills over a wide range of platforms. As I come close to finishing my final typeface I had a brain wave and I’ve realised what I can do to complete it and make it look more professional. I am going to completely remove all of the vertical lines in the type and replace them with horizontal lines – giving the type a stripy look whilst maintaing the geometric style.

If all goes to plan then this typeface should look extremely interesting and visually stimulating – almost like an optical illusion. The lines horizontal lines will guide your eyes around the type and will flow nicely between letters. I think this is a very hard thing to achieve without using a cursive font, but with the right tools I am sure I can make this typeface look better than ever before!