By Xinran Zhao

My descriptive word is daring. I chose century expended as my typeface to express the feeling of the word. Through the process of design, I found some characteristics of century expended. First of all, century expended typeface has obvious contrast between thick and thin. This characteristic is reflected in every single letter. For example, when I designed the letter “X”, I made “/” thin and “\” relatively thick. Secondly, the start and end points of each letter are curved. For capital letter “T”, both sides of the upper part are bending down rather than just a straight line, which make the shape look like an umbrella. Finanly, the size of century expended typeface looks bigger than others give me the feeling of bold.

Through the tracing name assignment, I learnt that each typeface has its own characteristic and different typefaces can used to express different meanings. Bold fonts can express the feeling of vigorous otherwise the soft fonts can used for some gentle words.