Ive spent some time trying to find the best way to make my WeType into a type TTF file to use in Adobe/Word etc.
I downloaded Glyphs to try but after a few failed attempts and watching lots of tutorials and saving my type in different ways, I found Fontlab worked a lot better.
-I set up the type from scratch to make sure that all the shapes were exactly the right size and everything worked to type height.
-I then separated each letter out onto a separate document, looking back I don't think I would need to do this, but it did make things a little easier to separate, and was a task I had to do when trying to work through Glyphs.
-In the Fontlab app, I looked at the spacing and the kerning of the letters, made sure it was all to type heights and used different variations of the type together to make sure the kerning was correct.
Developing on from this, I thought it may be nice to try the same font in a different colour and with only stroke and no fill for the font
This is the font at type height and also the version I used for the screen printed poster..
This is the Fontlab app set up and screen, you can open new tabs for each letter and to drop the initial file into place for each letter and to edit them or see them together as Im doing below, top then check spacing and kerning.
There are a list of phrases and pangrams to check the kerning which is really helpful...
-Ive listed a few common phrases Ive used in this project below to see how they will work, this will make it a lot easier to type out any phrases developed through the responses to the postcards and to develop any new postcards and responding posters.
-Ive then edited the colours to see if there are any other colours I would like to use.
-It has been a lot easier to type out the phrases then change the colours on the font using this so it has definitely been worth doing and something I definitely want to do again.
I also revisited the work of Josef Albers who I was inspired by to develop this font, you can purchase the font, Kombinations-Schrift through P22, a type foundry who make fonts developed from art and design history. Josef first developed this font whilst at the Bauhaus and this digital version was produced in conjunction with the Guggenheim Museum and Josef Albers Foundation.
Below you can see Walter and Edith as an example of how the font reads...
It has 10 different shapes to make up the font and has a lot more detail in the resulting letters, whereas my WeType has 7 shapes and is in reflection a lot more simplistic.
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