Typeface Design

The typeface design project spans both semesters, and results in a substantial typeface family with design challenges across script coverage, and styles, weights, and optical sizes. Students work on an extended Latin and Arabic family, with additional work in other scripts depending on each brief. Projects arise from real user needs, and are expected to engage with typographic, material, and cultural contexts, with sensitivity to both technical constraints and the multi-faceted human environments in which they will operate. Projects involve developing research and testing methodologies, and may require research with primary sources: manuscripts or historical printing, materials archives, and documentation for other projects.

These projects encapsulate intensive learning, combining practice and research, and prepare students to be accomplished designers with excellent collaboration skills, and the ability to engage with the discourse in our field.