Monday, September 21, 2009

Iris: exercises 1&2

I love Papyrus font. Because it looks like handwriting, I like it.
Papyrus font is a popular and unusual roman typeface that effectively merges the elegance of a traditional roman letterform with the hand-crafted look of highly skilled calligraphy.
It’s handcrafted and irregular as well as rough look give Papyrus a distinct look that lends itself well for display type. It is especially suitable for anything that needs to look a little bit antique.
Although this typeface has been overused in the past decade so many people are currently bored with it. But it value can be used in everywhere, such as logo, information board, book covers and packaging. Some people even use it for PowerPoint presentations. I think the small letter like b, d, f, h, k etc look better, because they are look very slightness and unique. Interestingly, they are even longer than capital letter. In addition, capital letter like E that the first bar is shorter than the middle one looks very funny.

This unique style font created by American designer Chris Costello, a designer and illustrator, created Papyrus using a calligraphy pen and textured paper. His intent was to create a typeface that looked as if written on papyrus 2000 years ago. On his website, he says that he has“affection for classic lettering styles”. He has also designed the typefaces Blackstone, Letterpress text, Mirage and Virus. He is a professional bass player and a black belt in Tae-Kwon Do. In an interview, Costello talks about the inspiration and process for Papyrus: I took a calligraphy pen and some textured paper and just started drawing “old looking” alphabets in many different styles. I was thinking about the ancient Middle East and I then began writing words, dates and phrases from the history of that time in all upper case lettering. I soon came up with what I thought vernacular writing may have looked like if the English language existed 2000 years ago. It probably would have been written on papyrus and figured that would be the perfect name for the font.
Papyrus was re-issued by linotype and ITC. It is now included with Microsoft and Apple as a system font.

Research question:
1.Can I produce a font that can be familiar with others?
2. Can I produce a font that can be use in holographic projection?
3. Can I produce a font that can be collapsible?
4. Can I produce a font that would melt?
5. Can I produce a font that can attract living creature such as butterfly?

1 comment:

  1. Iris - I really think 3. Can I produce a font that can be collapsible? offers rich opportunities for experimentation (the butterfly question does too though) lets explore these in class - and start to get some real depth your character forms - I do like Miranda's comments though and it is true that there is an uncanny consistency to your letter forms though

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