{"id":367,"date":"2023-09-25T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/?p=367"},"modified":"2023-10-07T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:56:41","slug":"project-1-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/2023\/09\/25\/project-1-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 1: Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"1224\" src=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/216\/2023\/10\/poster-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/216\/2023\/10\/poster-4.png 792w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/216\/2023\/10\/poster-4-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/216\/2023\/10\/poster-4-663x1024.png 663w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/erdmanc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/216\/2023\/10\/poster-4-768x1187.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. What did you learn?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned that there are a lot of details that go into making a font. The concepts of x-height, cap-height, baseline, ascenders and descenders were all new to me. I also learned several different typeface classifications beyond just serif and sans-serif. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. What was easy?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Playing around with basic shapes and seeing how much I could do with just a few of them was fun! Staying consistent with baseline, cap-height, and x-height was pretty straightforward once I set some guide lines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. What was challenging?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I found that it got progressively more challenging as I moved from letters to numbers to special characters. Putting together the poster was also more challenging in terms of getting everything properly aligned and spaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. How could your submission be improved?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I worked in Illustrator rather than FontStruct, I didn&#8217;t have a downloadable font to work with for creating the poster, so I ended up copy and pasting everything from my lettering grid Illustrator file and arranging it on the poster manually. It took a lot of work to get everything properly aligned and spaced, and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s still not perfect. I found that there&#8217;s an extension you can purchase through Fontself called &#8220;Fontself Maker&#8221; that would allow me to create an OpenType font out of the characters I designed in Illustrator, so that&#8217;s something I might want to try to improve my submission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>For the next class, it might be helpful to spend more time on how to professionally present the font on a poster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing the basics of creating a font will be helpful in any future projects that would benefit from a unique, custom font rather than something that&#8217;s already out there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>I was most inspired by the Pinterest board shared in the &#8220;Modular Font Examples&#8221; slides. 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