Monday, 29 October 2018

Response to Crits - Altering Typeface




In my feedback there was mention that my counters and crossbars on my uppercase letters were at different heights which defeats the purpose of my typeface being consistent therefore I changed that. I lowered the crossbars on my A, B and H as every other letter has their crossbar at the same height therefore making these fewer changes more sensible.

In response to my letters being different widths and how that counteracts my rule of consistency, I experimented with enlarging the letters' widths so that they all were 5 boxes wide however when considering whether this makes it easier to knit I decided against widening them as I wanted to make it less complicated by letting them have to knit less and additionally the curves in which the line are jagged have the rule of being only 1 box wide and 1 box down and by widening the letter I completely affect and change this rule making it less consistent.

 When experimenting with this I however found a more simplistic approach to some letters such as the uppercase Q and X which I always thought were over complicated and i believe these would both be easier to stitch as they no longer have different thicknesses which would be more complicated to knit.



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