Designing a Monolinear Odia Font
Design process that was followed in this project:
• Aim
- Learning Objectives
• Why make a new Odia Font
- Current Scenario of Digital Publications in Odia
- Growing Potential of the online Readership
• Brief History of Odia letter-form
- Evolution of Odia Script
- Overview of the Odia Script
• Variable Font
- What is a Static/Standard font
- What is a variable Font?
- The Variable Axis
- Benefits of Using a Variable Font
• Text and Display Fonts
- Display Fonts
- Text Fonts
- Characteristics of text fonts
• Choosing between ‘mono linear and ‘modulated’ typeface
• Odia fonts: Existing scenario
• Analysing existing Odia Fonts
- Comparing some existing fonts
- Grouping letters based on visual form
- Analysing the Existing grid
- Types of Joineries
- Types of Knots
• Letter Design Process
- Explorations
- Writing freehand paragraphs with different tools
- Letter drawing with broad pencil
- Outline Sketching
- Vertical Grid
- Vector Drawing (1st Draft)
- Composing names
- Final Glyphs and Sampler
• References
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