After some meticulous path-smoothing in Illustrator and stylizing in Photoshop, we present to you the final draft of our premier font Athena! The main improvements from our first draft include cleaning up the edges of each letter and making the decorative elements feel more natural. In the draft, the letters had slightly rounded edges, whichContinue reading “Athena Final Draft”
Category Archives: Font Development
Introducing Athena
Our newly named font, Athena, is inspired by the character of whom we designed the font for. We believe that the font properly encapsulates Athena’s essence and aura through the typeface’s boldness and whimsicality. Draft One Following our research regarding Victorian fonts and formation of a general direction for our design, we decided to startContinue reading “Introducing Athena”
Creating Victoria Neue, Part One
Following our last post where we researched the origins of Steampunk, we decided to go in the direction of traditional Victorian typography as our main influence for the typeface we will create. We believe that by taking a new spin on traditional Victorian design trends, we can better target the audience than if we designedContinue reading “Creating Victoria Neue, Part One”
Starting the Font Design Journey: Victoria Neue
Isabelle Cordova is a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute pursuing a custom major in User Experience Design. Elaine Chen is also a sophomore at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Computer Science and Professional Writing. Background For a Visual Rhetoric course at WPI, Elaine and I were commissioned to produce an original font family for anContinue reading “Starting the Font Design Journey: Victoria Neue”
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