letter making experiment1-replicating helvetica by combining strokes from other typefacesstrokes come from 4 typefacescomparative analysis-the stroke amounts wold effect the looking mode among whole and partsexperiment 2-increasing stroke amountusing colour to highlight overlapping areausing stroke weight to highlight overlapping arealetter making experiment 4-each stroke contains more than 10 substrokestype face made by their own overlapsthree stages of my evolving understanding of letter making during the projectpublication design-A type specimen & Explore the discourse of type making and overlapping strokeschapter 1 i think you are more perfect than Helvetica-An exploration of the typographic ideology of ‘seamlessness’ and ‘absolute perfection’ for which Helvetica is held up as the gold standard. chapter 2 i know you are made by strokes-Breaking open the closed contours, reducing letters to pieced-together components and introducing the making processchapter 3 i am my overlaps-By stripping away the skeletal structure of the strokes, the ‘conflicts (overlaps)’ themselves become the sole visual entities to be read.
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