Student: Roberta MirandaClassification: Hybrid Display Serif – Modern/Rational with Transitional & Flare-Slab InfluencesVariation Axis: Serif Shapes (and optical Size) Butique is a hybrid serif display typeface created by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP. Developed from the Foundational Hand and drawing from Gerrit Noordzij’s stroke theory, the project introduces students to… Continue reading Butique
Tag: Serif
Villeneuf
Student: Rita SoaresClassification: Transitional Serif with Garalde InfluencesVariation Axis: Weight (with high stroke contrast) Villeneuf is a Transitional display typeface with Garalde influences, developed by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP. The project reinterprets the historical JVilleneuve typeface (2006) by Portuguese sculptor and typographer Manuel Pereira da Silva, blending its heritage… Continue reading Villeneuf
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Student: Julien LimaClassification: Transitional Serif (Vox-Atypi)Variation Axis: Weight (Regular–SemiBold) Unnamed is a transitional serif typeface designed by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP. Inspired by Minion Pro, it pays homage to late 18th-century Neoclassical serif types while aiming for balance, legibility, and editorial versatility. Conceived initially in Regular (400) and interpolated… Continue reading Unnamed
Cunty
Student: João TomásClassification: Modern Serif (Didone, Vox-Atypi)Variation Axis: Weight (Regular–Bold) Cunty is a modern serif display typeface that draws inspiration from Bodoni and PP Editorial New, embracing the high contrast and vertical stress typical of Didone models. Designed by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP, the typeface introduces a more fluid… Continue reading Cunty
Ogee Curves
This is a character design pattern learned last week during John Stevens Capital’s Immersion Class — the Ogee Curve. Stevens used it to describe the small inward cup, or “dip” present in the Monumental Capital (AKA Trajan) top stem serif.