Design Practice: Making a Typeface

How will we know if our typeface has worked?

• Does the response work across all glyphs?
• The glyphs are legible 
• Its consistent and recognisable as related fonts
• the modifications are consistent
• what distinguishes them
• scale that works

e.g. Gill Sans font is different for each area but together work as a typeface.
How far can we push the boundries of a typeface. go beyond legibility and readability.

italics are no more than a 12 degree angle or it shouldn't be less than half the x height.
Italic is a slanted serif font! eg Roman fonts. Oblique is a slanted san serif eg Gothic fonts.

The questions we need to ask ourselves before modifying the font is:

1. what are you going to modify?
2. how are you going to modify it?
3. how bold can bold be?
4. how light can light be?
5. how italic can italic be?

The three things needed when considering making a typeface are consistency, distinction and modification.