![]() Vinod also showed us how to use FontLab Studio 5, a software which we will be using upon our completion of the digitization of fonts. Week 8 (16/10/19) Today's class was rather chill as we were all utilizing the hours to digitize our fonts. We were also given the chance to dissect the letters and it was a really fun experience for me! I enjoyed the process of dissecting and understanding more about how a letter is formed from scratch. Week 7 (09/10/19) It was, once again, a very insightful lecture today, as we learned a lot about the anatomy of letterforms. He commented that the line spacing between each word should be the same. Vinod approved my final layout design as well. Specific feedback: For my third layout design, the 'is' in 'god is in the kerning' should be in the middle of 'in the'. We are also advised to try out different alignments for the sentence given and check which looks the best for our font. The label at the end of our page should be in Helvatica or Arial typeface, and in 7pt. General feedback: Every word in the sentence should have the same point size. Specific feedback: What is it aligned to? Needs to be Helvetica/Arial 7 points. Specific feedback: I should change the crossbar of the letter 'e' into a thinner stroke. The final piece should be labeled as 'font name by name, 2019'. ![]() We can design the placement of our font in whichever way we want to, without changing the font size, on an A4 size paper on Adobe Illustrator. Once we were done with our kerning on FontLab Studio, we should type out 'god is in the kerning' then proceed with generating our font. General feedback: We should export our file as an open/true type. The letter 't' should either end with a slant with a decreased thickness of the stroke, or a uniform and straight stroke. Specific feedback: The first typeface is preferred. 2.12 Adding a box to create the stencil effect on my fontįeedback on Google sheet: Your e-portfolio is well updated and very clean. 2.11 Assembling different shapes that form the letter 'd'įig. The following steps are the process of forming the letter 'd' (Fig. I created an oval shape based on the bowl of 'd' with red so I can differentiate between the text and shape (Fig. Then, I created a textbox and keyed in the first letter that I am going to animate, which is the letter 'd'. 2.9 Guidelines created on Adobe Illustrator To begin with, I created guidelines with 500pt for the x-height since that is the default x-height that will be used in FontLab Studio 5, 850pt for the ascender, and -270 for the descender (Fig. Then, I started to digitalize the letters by using Adobe Illustrator. ![]() I created a more detailed and neat sketch so I can refer to it while digitizing (Fig. After showing the lecturers my sketches, I settled on the third sketch, which is to introduce a stencil font on Futura Std.
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