Katherine Ortiz

Typeface Analysis

As the professor mentioned this was a very tedious task to compete. However, practicing drawing these letters changed the way I look at letters. It made me pay closer attention to the details of each letter. I didn’t have a real reason in choosing Garamound, but I saw it was somewhat simple to do. Before starting the project I would notice where the letter was thicker and thinner. Also what was the a center and the d center of each letter.

The capital letters were much easier to draw than the lowercase letters because it was less measuring and more stems. The lowercase letters had three lines to be measured, which were the top height, middle height, and lower. I feel that my lowercase letters came out much better than my capital letters because I started to practice with the capital letters first. I also knew how to do the letter spacing better with the lowercase letters. Also with the lowercase letters I could draw the curves and serifs better.

Each piece I had to draw twice in order to perfect it more. Sometimes in the shading of each letter I would shade too much in the letter, therefore making it thicker and less similar to the original letter. This project required a lot of carefulness with each letter and made me appreciate typefaces even more. I find myself looking at each letter when reading something and analyzing the details, questioning myself how that style came about.