Xin Lin

The font I choose for this assignment is bodoni. The reason I choose it because I look easier to hand draw it. However, when I started my first name which is hand-drawing, I found it was pretty hard. Especially, the thin and thick relationship and letter spacing. I also noticed that every letter doesn’t have same size and spacing. The one gave a lot troubles are letter “Y” and “N”. When I drew N, it was much more narrow than the standard size, and I had struggled a while to get the right letter spacing for Y. Each letter has it’s own characteristics, and I need to exam it carefully before I start.

The most important thing I learn from this project is that things that look easy may not be that easy. I spent a about 4 hours to finish the whole assignment. I had to redo few times become the baseline wasn’t  horizontal or I didn’t pay attention to some minor errors. This gave me a lot of ideas about typographic. Learning the differences of fonts and drawing them by hand gave me more deep understanding of letter spacing, lettering and other elements. Those stuffs make huge difference between excellent design and bad design.