Dipping a toe in the font creation pool
August 29, 2007
In the summer of 2005 I took part in an online course offered through the American Association of Graphic Artists in collaboration with MIT called Digital Information Design Camp. It was very intensive, but great. In some aspects I was in over my head, as many of the participants were accomplished programmers from MIT, but everyone was very gracious. I had the opportunity to learn from some amazing instructors (John Maeda! Peter Cho! Lisa Strausfeld!
Martin Wattenberg!) and really overachieving classmates.
One of our assignments was to create a typeface from a restricted set of shapes. Actually, this is how my classmates and I interpreted this assignment — Peter Cho, our instructor, actually meant for us to do something quite different. Anyhoo, here’s what I came up with. We had 2 days to do this project — a real typeface can take months to create. But I think this came out pretty well.
