Type Journal

Type Journal

Production method: Digital. 

Anatomy: Even line weight throughout from equal sized pixels, very square joints, slightly longer verticals compared to the horizontal strokes. By around 1 pixel. All uppercase glyphs. 

Identity: A digital font based on a sans serif font. No real links with any other font styles, its quite square so could be inspired by simple woodblock maybe. 

Character: Pixelated, reversed out, bitmap, dots, code, stable. 

Production method: Woodblock or digital. 

Anatomy: Very square glyphs, angular joints, equal weights on strokes, some glyphs share the same line length were others have shorter lines creating an inconstancy in the type specimen. 

Identity: Digital, decorative, inspired by gothic sans serif fonts. 

Character: Square, extended, basic, simplistic, computerized. 

Production method: Lead. 

Anatomy: Beveled edges to the terminals, not quite squared off and not quite rounded, a nice balance between. Consistent line weight, large amounts of space in aperture of the counters and inside bowls, straight cut elements within the curve of the C and O giving the typeface structure and stableness. 

Identity: Square grotesque sans serif. Gothic. 

Character: Stable, soft, lighthearted, spacious, minimalistic. 

Production method:

Anatomy: Lowercase glyphs, rounded terminals at the end of stokes, long verticals with very short crossbars on glyphs like the 't' creating a condensed look.

Identity: Apeloig type spécimen. Square grotesque sans serif, gothic classification. 

Character: Playful, cute, small, miniature, rounded. 

Production method: Digital. 

Anatomy: Consistant line width through the use of these pixel elements, slightly condensed characters. 

Identity: A digital font based on a simple grotesque sans serif. 

Character: Hidden, disguised, camouflage, abstract, decoding, pixelated. 

Production method: Digital. 

Anatomy: Consistant weight through bold volume of color. 

Identity: Digital pictogram

Character: Pictogram, political, war, violence, type as image, political connotations with america and violence and war. 

Production method: Hand crafted. 

Anatomy: Consistant line weight through a 1 cross stitch. Longer horizontal lines. 

Identity: This cross-stitch is based on a sans serif done from the gothic category. 

Character: Crafted, detailed, intricate, colorful, bold, extended glyphs. 

Production method: Physical construction. 

Anatomy: The anatomy is simple, very square and angular due to the physical construction, sharp angles on the joins and the bowls, small apertures, condensed apertures and a perfect square aperture throughout the glyphs. Irregular dimensions, some are condensed some are extended some are regular. 

Identity: Physical construction deriving from maybe a woodblock type from the block category of type productions. 

Character: 3D, abstract, random, rotation, bold, sculpture. 

Production method: Origins would be lead. 

Anatomy: Heavy line weight, lowercase mostly, short height characters. 

Identity: Grotesque sans serif. Gothic. 

Character: Simple, clean, bold, high impact. Red helps draw you in, compressed characters. 

Production method: Digital.

Anatomy: Fluid motion within the stems, trying to keep joins of different glyph elements to a minimum. Consistent light weight lines, all lowercase, no dots onto of the i but it would hinder the cleanliness of it. Abstract  bowl with an ornate taper instead of an even square bowl. 

Identity: Digital, gothic. 

Character: Mechanical, wire, fluid, neon shape, abstract, squared off bowls and curves.