Design Principles - Font Family: Stone / Sable / Bone / Lead / Wood / Silicone

The first task was to print of ABCXYZ in upper and lower case in the font that we feel is the best example for each of last weeks categories. The categories were as follows:

• Stone - Normally neat serifs as when carving letters into stone you couldn't go directly in you needed to slope in from an angle.
• Wood - Thick chunky letters that normally have serifs that are equally chunky.
• Sable - Brush strokes that can lead to a fine point from a larger size as less pressure is put on the brush.
• Bone - Thinner letters with serifs that are normally cut at a precise angle.
• Lead - San serifs that would have been finely cut from metal for letter pressing etc...
• Silicone - Computer generated fonts that do not have a historical background, that is not to say they are not historically inspired.
 



Sable



Bone

Silicone

Stone

Wood

Lead

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The next activity was to choose one of the letter forms and modify it to make a new font. Below shows the chosen font and then how it has been modified by removing some of the script features to tone it down but keeping and even adding serifs so it remains unique. The font create in now a light font. The next challenge will be to work with this and create a Bold, Regular and Italic versions.