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ALBERTE STEFFEN DOHN

PROJECT

YEAR

WORK

OILY - TYPE DESIGN

2023

TYPEFACE

BRIEF

Draw a typeface that you could use communicating purely typographical (with color of course). It should be usable on different media.

Draw a typeface in one weight a-å A-Å 0-9 and some punctuations.

SOLUTION

The display typeface 'Oily' was constructed from the thought of how oil and water repels each other, wanted to explore how a typeface could be constructed looking both liquid and having movement, but at the same time being readable.
With this in mind i created a complex typeface with high contrast and an organic feel to it. I have deliberately incorporated a feeling of disconnected areas in many of my letter to mimic the way oil and water repels each other.
In my typeface it was important to get a liquid feeling, but still have the letters follow the same guidelines such as contrast, x-height, disconnected areas etc. to create a streamline typeface that fits into the same family.

SOFTWARE
PHOTOSHOP
ILLUSTRATOR
GLYPHS

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SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT

Oily is constructed as a display typeface and consists of 56 letters of the danish alphabet, 10 numbers and 6 punctuations. The typeface has both upper and lower case letters.

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