Type specimen poster grid system how to#

Type specimen poster grid system how to#

To make sure the alphabet wasn’t too much I decided to make the lower case letters smaller and grey so that they connected with the surrounding graphics.Īfter taking the poster to a group critique I got some really useful feedback on how to improve the poster. I later created a grid system to insert the Futura alphabet into the poster. I feel this was a much better approach to what I wanted to achieve This did not work as well as I would have liked so I decided to incorporate the font with a low opacity. I tried to make the lines create the effect of the lines coming together to make the word futura by over laying them and taking the opacity down. I decided to go ahead with this idea I had created using straight lines protruding from the word futura. Using geometric shapes to create sections within the poster allowing me to leave reasonable clear spaces and sections for text and imagery. Looking at all my designs I tried to incorporate as much for the elements of Futura as possible. I really like the poster above, it is relating Futura with being the first typeface on the moon. Using Pinterest I found a few different examples of Futura specimen sheets. This means the typeface is constructed of monolinear lines and circular or square shapes.A sans-serif is a category of typefaces that don’t use serifs.A geometric letter is a letter that is evenly spaced.

Seen as the link between old and new within Graphic Design.A lover of arts like jazz and dance but also a lover of the modern arts.A typeface designer born in Wernigerode, Germany in 1978.The typeface contains four major forms, condensed medium, condensed extra bold, medium and medium italic.It contains such characteristics as sans-serifs, stems and cross bars.Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface.It became one of the most used fonts of the 20th century.These specimen can be used by graphic designers and typographers to judge how a particular typeface behaves on the printed page, and to decide if they want to buy and use the typeface in question. I choose Futura for my font and started to do some basic research.Ī type specimen is a publication in which a typeface is shown and presented, detailing what fonts the typeface consists of. Your poster must include the following text You will pick your font out of the ‘hat’. You are required to design an A2 black and white (you can include grey)