Fiore Sans by Ines Brandt
FONT ANATOMY OF THE ORIGINAL FONT
increased stroke contrast
straight vertical stress
Ascender line X-height
Baseline Descender line
Didot is a Neoclassical serif typeface: Named after the Didot Family, famous as printers and type producers, the typeface is based on a collection of related types developed from 1784-1811 by Firmin Didot.
round cuts at ending
abrubt bilateral hairline serifs
drop serifs
hairline strokes
UPPERCASE LETTERS
ABCDEF GHIJKL MNOPQR STUVW XYZ
LOWERCASE LETTERS
abcdef ghijkl mnopqr stuvw xyz
NUMERALS
012 45 678 9
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DIACRITICS & SIGNS
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FONT SIZES IN USE 22/24pt
Grandma by Libby from Greendale
12/14pt
“What children need most are the essentials that their grandma provides in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, and lessons in life.“ Words cannot describe how much my grandma means to me. She not only shows the qualities of a hero, but the qualities of an amazing grandmother.
10/11pt
Grandma has persevered all her life. Being the youngest of nine children, it was a struggle to get even amounts of attention and independence. Even though she is one of three left, she still takes time to remember and laugh about her childhood. My grandma is extremely protective when it comes to her family. I could not ask for a more loving grandmother. On my birthday every year, she sends me a card with a gum man inside. The head, arms and legs are made from dimes. For the body, she puts a stick of gum. Talkative is definitely one of her strong qualities. Every Friday night, she calls and asks me how my week went. Whenever she calls, we talk for hours about the things we’ve been doing, and stories that happened to us at school. Most nights, we chat until our phones die! My mom and dad think I am wasting Grandma’s time by talking too much, but she loves when I talk to her. Comfort Keepers is the perfect job for my grandma. Everyday, she goes and helps her elder clients with their needs. Most of them are widows, so most can’t do all their chores on their own. Grandma takes them grocery shopping, does their laundry, cleans their houses, and even takes them Christmas shopping. Grandma is the most caring person I have ever met. One day when she was at church, an older lady came riding up on an old bike. My grandma hadn’t seen her before, so she went up and introduced herself. After the ceremony, she went up and asked the lady if she needed a ride home. “Yes,” the lady said. As they were driving, my grandma said, “So where we headed? Do you live around here?” After a long pause from the lady...she said, “No, I live across town...at the homeless shelter.” My grandma was heartbroken. Every so often, she would call the needy lady to ask how she was doing. The women at the shelter explained that she didn’t have much money, because she lost her job. Grandma insisted on helping, offering to pay for half of the woman’s apartment rent each month.
7/7pt
“A hero is someone who has given her life to something bigger than oneself.“ Most heroes are movie stars, or athletes. They are known for being famous, or making a lot of money. To me, none of that matters...because I already have the best hero in the world!
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12/ 14,4 pt
my grandmother is my sword
14/ 16,8 pt
my grandmother is my sword
18/ 21,6pt
my grandmother is my sword 24/ 28,8pt
FONT ANATOMY
slight stroke contrast
Descender line
X-height
Baseline
Ascender line
sm a l l a per t u r e
ascenders are cut of f
straight vertical stress
round ascenders
teardrop terminals
FONT CHARACTERISTICS gap between strokes
HMPRB WXYK ebdpqw yxkag horizontally cut ascenders
IJHLNM VAWXYK
no crossbar
A rounded apex
VAW vw
horizontal cut & teardrop terminals
CGSJ crsejfga
cut off ascenders
nmru
crossbar cut in half
t f
rounded ascenders & descenders
U hbdpqklt
FONT RELATIONSHIPS
O AVWXYZ A vwxyz
OCUDQG aoecbdpqg
I N S
IJLTHEFPRB iljft NMK nmhruk S s
FONT CREATION & SKELETON
M
Skeleton of the source font Didot
applied midline to create a base for the own font
applied brushes to change the structure of the original font
M
cut ascenders and descenders, as well as aesthetical cuts to give the letter its finished look
BRUSHES
W180/ R50/ G10
W180/ R50/ G15
45°
45° 90°
applied in rounded and vertical strokes
W0/ R100/ G5
90°
applied mostly in horizontal strokes
W0/ R50/ G9
45° 90°
applied for the points in i & j
45° 90°
applied for the g attachments
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