Megan Hall : Bitmap

posted by Tony Brock on February 6, 2006 | comments: 3 | post a comment

miss maaaaaygaaaaan
Nice experiment! Its a good study of seeing what can be eliminated from characters but still have the strength of them. Scale seems to make a big difference in the readability. I think a real test for it will see it written out in sentences.. . nonsence prefered. ANYWAYS I think that some characters could use a little more deletion maybe. Like the "L" and "J" for example. I like what you have done with the "r" and "u."



Posted by britt hayes on February 7, 2006 11:51 PM

nice study megan.
right now the face is working better at a bigger scale, it seems to lose
some weight at actual size. maybe there's a condensed or extended
version of the face. it'd be cool to see an actual family develop from
this experiment. the s and e are looking too similar. spell out some
words with this to see how the letters work together.
is there a name of this deleted face yet?



Posted by adrienne yancey on February 8, 2006 09:18 AM

i'm not in this class, but i want to start responding to what you guys are producing. your name was one of the first that i came to, random clicking, but luckily was a face that i could respond to.

i was really drawn to your 'a', and i feel that this is your strongest letter in the set. I started sketching it out a little to see why i this was, drawing a few iterations, and i think you have this one nailed. it has something to do with where in the letterform you decide to delete the stroke. you did it best in the 'a' when the stroke was deleted where two or more lines would intersect, for instance where the bowl intersects with the stem. if you delete the stroke in a curve on some letters, the form breaks down too much.

there is a lot of inconsistency in the set, which actually works for you. i would take a look at the a, c, n, and y which all work a little more together as a set while still maintaining that individual character.

if you don't mind, i want to keep sketching out a few more iterations and then show you what i'm talking about. it's kind of hard to explain on here in just words. we'll chat. good work though.



Posted by Alex Ford on February 19, 2006 09:25 PM