Font Poster

Apparently creating a font poster is like a right of passage into the world of design. Every graphic designer has created one, and so that it why I have made my own today. It's the one you seen on screen. A little while ago it looks very different but that was due to it being a rough draft/outline of what I wanted the poster to look like. With some colleague critic and hard work I was able to adjust what was needed, things such as balance and concept consistency were brought up not only from my peers but even I was able to notice the problems as I was reviewing my work. Thankfully, though, I was able to easily fix the problems and create the new or final version (The one you see on the bottom of the text). I used the Adobe InDesign application to do so.

The Text I used for the poster was Tekton Pro. I found it while searching fonts on the adobe website and just randomly scrolled by it and also discovered an interest in it and so it became the focal point of my Font Poster. Through my research of said font I found that it's actually a very popular font known for It's distinct factor of being extremely legible. It was made by David Siegel which based said font on the hand lettering of author and architect Francis D.K. Ching. It was at first frequently used by architects but later made it's ay into the mainstream as the vast majority of people found out about it.

When I was generating the piece I tried my best to keep all the principles of design in mind but the most prominent ones were most definitely balance and in a sense repetition. Another idea I wanted to keep was that of a building type design since it was not only used by but also based on an architect writing. I felt I portrayed that feeling well making good use of box shape letters and implementing it into my design.