Myrtle

Myrtle

Myrtle

Created

04/2024

Context

Royal Danish Academy

Category

Font

Skills

Type Design

A Typography Crash Course

3 week introductory course to typography, scratching the surface of type design while creating our own font. An exercise in shape, training our eyes as we worked in varying levels of detail, from the individual letter to the font as a whole.

3 week introductory course to typography, scratching the surface of type design while creating our own font. An exercise in shape, training our eyes as we worked in varying levels of detail, from the individual letter to the font as a whole.

3 week introductory course to typography, scratching the surface of type design while creating our own font. An exercise in shape, training our eyes as we worked in varying levels of detail, from the individual letter to the font as a whole.

The Result

The Result

The Result

A typeface I’ve named Myrtle, inspired by the street I stayed on while in New York. Industrial sans-serif with heavy wayfinding connotations intended to be used in big sizes, with wide, squarish counters taking space and catching attention.

A typeface I’ve named Myrtle, inspired by the street I stayed on while in New York. Industrial sans-serif with heavy wayfinding connotations intended to be used in big sizes, with wide, squarish counters taking space and catching attention.

A typeface I’ve named Myrtle, inspired by the street I stayed on while in New York. Industrial sans-serif with heavy wayfinding connotations intended to be used in big sizes, with wide, squarish counters taking space and catching attention.