Whitney

Whitney is a classic Serif typeface revival designed by Ana Paula Hentges, Margarida Almeida, and Vitória Santos in 2022.

Whitney is a Classical (soft nineteenth-century) Serif typeface revival designed by Ana Paula Hentges, Margarida Almeida, and Vitória Santos in 2022. The project had as its premise of developing a complete text typeface, from a printed copy before the 1980s. The chosen font was Windsor, launched in 1905 and created by Eleisha Pechey. Due to… Continue reading Whitney

ADAKZIA

Adakzia is Sans Serif “Frakenfont” Grotesque typeface revival, designed by Alessio Morelli, João Aveiro, and Rui Costa in 2022.

Adakzia is a Sans Serif “Frakenfont” Grotesque typeface revival, designed by Alessio Morelli, João Aveiro, and Rui Costa in 2022. The entire project developed around the idea of creating something controversial, almost chaotic, and in line with a Dadaist idea (…) to create a single file that contained two sides of the same coin from… Continue reading ADAKZIA

Schron Poltawski

Schron Poltawski, a Glyphic revival designed by Beatriz Fernandes, Joana Teixeira and Margarida Silva in 2022.

Schron Poltawski is based on a Glyphic (Old Style Geometric / Graphic or highly angled type of) typeface optimized for text and headlines, designed by Beatriz Fernandes, Joana Teixeira and Margarida Silva in 2022. This typeface was also presented during the 12th edition of the Typography Meeting. And was included in the respective book of… Continue reading Schron Poltawski

Redaction: an original approach to variable font masters

This year’s edition of the Fontstand Conference was an amazing one-day event! The culture, design, and typefaces presented by internationally acclaimed type designers were mind-blowing. One such presentation was Jeremy Mickel’s. He presented us with this fantastic typeface. As a hybrid revival of Times and Century, it is an excellent Case Study to be further… Continue reading Redaction: an original approach to variable font masters

Unbounded: a new open source variable font

Unbounded, a recent typeface constitutes the kind of work expected from FBAUP’s typeface design students. Especially considering the contents and presentation in the interactive digital specimen. Although not explicitly sourced from historical exemplars (thus… not really a revival as we do in the master’s course), the type specimen presents the concept, anatomy features, character set,… Continue reading Unbounded: a new open source variable font

Typeface Design Evaluation Criteria

The quality assessment (QA) or the evaluation of the quality of a typeface design is a very complex task, as it requires assessing the design’s technical, contextual, and aesthetic qualities.

Specimen showcase

Today was the first-semester class. During the next 15 weeks, I will [try to] bring a sample of different physical/printed type specimens to class. The only criteria are that they have to be bound books, booklets, magazines, journals, newspapers, or another book (ish) or editorial-based media. Class 1, 2022-01-08: Adobe Originals: Garamond Pro and Arno;… Continue reading Specimen showcase

Legibility paper

João Figueiredo (Superv. Aprígio Morgado) Exercício sobre a (i)legibilidade da letra — Desenvolvimento de uma metodologia para a construção de tipos de letras reducionistas (paper published in the 11ET, and soon to be published dissertation research) This (paper) research presents a very clear and detailed methodology for conducting legibility studies with “semi-randomized” options. The theoretical… Continue reading Legibility paper