As part of unit 1, looking at the use of computers in art & design, HND students are required to design (at least in part), and produce their own font using appropriate software.
We will come on to the software in due time, first you need to have an understanding of Type and Typography.
The handout you recieved in class can be found here:
http://www.wsu.edu/~khaas/resources/typodesign/Typography.pdf
Become familiar with those principles. As well you need to consider the idea that typefaces have personality. What will you want the typeface you design to say? Start gathering your thoughts and experiment with sketches or media to produce letterforms that can later be digitised and converted into fonts.
A range of the good and the terrible can be found on www.dafont.com , but better is www.itcfonts.com which you can trust to have reliable information and GOOD design. Look out for U&lc magazine on the ITC website, well worth looking at as part of your research as you find out what goes into type design.
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