Font Specimen: Percilia Serif

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Percilia by Nicol Moalli


Font anatomy - Garamond Premier Pro

high contrast + unilateral soft rounded serif

pointed apex touching the baseline

Scooped terminal + soft rounded bilateral serif

high contrast + oblique stress


flag shaped top serif

tilted apex

thin link + big loop


CAPITAL LETTERS


lowercase letters


Numbers and diacritics


Signs and symbols




Different font sizes in use

21/24pt

Burtonesque Breaking Down the Gothic Cinematic Style of Tim Burton How do you describe the work of Tim Burton? Easy: you describe them as „Burtonesque“.

11 /12pt

like Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. Burton‘s body of work has gone through several changes throughout his career, but the „esque“ of his style really comes from his earlier work from the late 80s to the mid-late 90s. Films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and his two contributions to the Batman franchise contain a number of his narrative tropes, as well as his iconic gothic/idyllic imagery.

12/13pt

If you watch films like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, or Corpse Bride, it‘s quite clear that they were all directed by the same comically macabre individual, Tim Burton. Experiencing his brand of cinema is a lot like walking into an abandoned amusement park, or a haunted carnival, or a nightmarish circus_it‘s entertaining_and even endearing at times, but it‘s also extremely dark and deeply disturbing. His style is so unique that he has joined the ranks of filmmakers whose names have made the transition from moniker to adjective,

Anyone familiar with the Arts, can immediately tell Burton’s films are rooted in German Expressionism. What began as a modern art movement in the 1920s, swept through art, cinema, and animation in Europe, and then onto America. The German movement originated during World War 1 and drew on psychoanalysis. A German Expressionist film explores themes of insanity, chaos, death or fear, which is what the German people experienced as a reaction to the war.

8/10pt



Font anatomie

High contrast + oblique stress big teardrop terminal

unilateral bracketed serif

small teardrop terminal bilateral bracketed serif


Font anatomie

lowercase 's‘ overlapping the X height line

Ascender line Cap line X-height

Base line Descender line

tapered stem High contrast + vertical stress

slightly tilted apex


Font Evolution

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1. ORIGINAL FONT

Garamond Premier Pro

3. REBUILT SKELETON Secondly I changed the shape of the line structure

5. SERIF I chose the ink drop shape as Serif


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Font Evolution

2. SKELETON Firstly I traced the middle lines of the original font

4. BRUSH CHOICE Than I chose and applied the brushes to the skeleton

6. FINAL LETTER


Font brushes


Font brushes

180/33%/8,5pt

32/21%/8,5pt

28/15%/7pt

15/15%/7,5pt


Font characteristics and relations

bilateral bracketed serifs

VWANMX HUI CS

unilateral bracketed serif unilateral bracketed serif, pointing downwards

Right teardrop

Left teardrop

FE

TZ

KRQ

YGJ


Font characteristics and relations

aunmh

jyg kt

Left teardrop + tilted apex

Left teardrop

Right teardrop

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unilateral bracketed serif, pointing upwards and downwards bilateral bracketed serifs


Top Serifs

AWMN

CS ces

a

VW AYKX vwyxk

IJHLKNU nmhrudbp qkiljfg

rf

EFZTRPB z


Bottom serifs

MNWV

MNHIFPRTK nmhrpqkilf

BEZ z

JYG jyg

RQK tk

XA x

ua


Typographic Scale

85pt

68pt

54pt

42pt

Percilia Percilia Percilia Percilia

32pt

Percilia

26pt

Percilia


85pt

68pt

54pt

42pt

Percilia Percilia Percilia Percilia Percilia

26pt

Percilia

32pt



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