Lesson 3 (Homework) – 02/09/08 – Digital G Level – 3

For our homework this lesson we had to research about fonts and find five fonts that we liked and would use within or would consider for the design of our poster(s).

These five fonts I consider to be Ideal for the work I will be doing and using with the poster(s).

Black Chancery
Black Chancery is a calligraphic gothic outline font based on the public domain bitmap font of the same name. It’s a good looking and useful display font, lending itself well to many occasions and a suitable companion to Black Chancery Italic. This one I use quite often when writing out tags, but the downside is that it does not have an apostrophe so I have to change back and forth between fonts.

First Order
This is a classic script with great modern variety .First Order Italic, First Order Bold, and First Order Plain when you download this file. Trust me: First Order Plain is best when you need 16pt or smaller, First Order looks phenomenal at 18pt and above (that little dot-distorts in the middle of the text if you make it too small). This is a nice font to use I have used this font more than once when designing scrolls and parchment for the lettering.

Freebooter Script
It’s a good looking and useful display font, lending itself well to many occasions. and a suitable companion to Black Chancery Italic. This is a fancy font what with swoosh’s and swirls and is still quite readable. Alternate characters add variety and can enhance readability with some letter combinations. This font I use sometimes as a substitute for the Black Chancery a lot of the gothic scripts look alike.

Times New Roman
Morison’s revision became Times New Roman The new typeface made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times newspaper, and after one year, the design was released for commercial sale.
Although no longer used by The Times, it is still widely used for book typography. It is one of the most successful and ubiquitous typefaces in history.
Although Times New Roman is still included as an optional font. Times New Roman has grown to become the modern day pencil font. The Times New Roman fonts are widely used in books and magazines, for reports, office documents and also for display and advertising. The Morecambe Bay writers use this font for most of their book work.

Verdana
These fonts are tuned to be extremely legible even at very small sizes on the screen, these sans serif fonts are unique examples of type design for the computer screen. The generous width and spacing of Verdana’s characters is the key to the legibility of these fonts on the screen. Despite the quality of the Verdana font family at small sizes it is at higher resolutions that the fonts are best appreciated. If when you’re doing any small lettering on your projects this would be my font to use.

Most of my spare time this week has been taken up completing my Mood Board for presentation in the class on Friday morning. I arranged it and re-arranged it as to how I would imagine my client would get the most compressive choice from the board. I added more articles as the week went on taking into account colours and fonts and design for the poster(s) I will be designing.

I believe that my mood board is sufficient for the client’s needs in achieving the poster(s) they require. There is ample scope for the design.