Quarantine

My two-and-a-half-year run of avoiding Covid came to an end this week. My symptoms aren’t very serious but I have to quarantine for the week. Patrick’s going to do a Premier tutorial today, then you’ll spend the rest of the class getting feedback and working on your typefaces. If you want me to give you feedback, see the instructions below on setting up a “Variations 2” folder. Otherwise, you can continue to work on your typeface in Thursday’s class.

Roll

Premier Tutorial

Patrick is going to lead a tutorial on how to use the titling features in Premier for the movie project. I’ll walk around and if you have problems, you can ask me for help and I’ll ask Patrick what to do. (I haven’t used Premier since before the pandemic.)

Typeface

Create two new folders inside your Typeface folder on Google Drive: “Variations 1” and “Variations 2”. Take a picture (or pictures) of your current versions and put the files in “Variations 1”.

Start by reviewing the typeface project description.

In teams, crit your font variation sketches. Here are some (but not all) of the things you should discuss:

• Does the typeface seem to match the design brief? If not, should the typeface be adjusted? Or the design brief? Sometimes, sketching out glyphs helps you come up with better ideas. But if the glyphs just aren’t working, don’t change the brief because that’s easier. For example, if the strokes are just too thin, making the glyphs look spindly and hard to read, don’t revise the brief to say that your goal is to create glyphs that are spindly and hard to read.
• What variations seem to work best? Why?
• Across the different glyphs, are there similar features that will help some of them feel like they belong to the same typeface?
• Serifs or terminals. Contrast. X-height. Aperture. Bowl. Ascenders and descenders. Anything.

Take notes and leave them in your “Variations 1” folder; title the notes document “Variation 1 Feedback”.

Spend the rest of the class working on revisions of your typeface.

Getting Feedback from Johndan

I want to give you feedback on your glyph sketches at some point this week. (This is mandatory, so don’t just skip this step.) To get feedback, you should revise your sketches based on the crit you got in class today. Once you have new versions, take pictures of them and put them in the Variations 2 folder, then email me to ask me for input.

You can do this at any point between now and the end of class on Thursday.