Stream
Typeface design
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Stream is a typeface designed from scratch using Illustrator. Keeping in mind consistency among all letters, it is very geometric with subtle flair.
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I kept the base width to height ratio and stroke width of the letters consistent so that the letters stayed uniform. I added bracketed serifs to both sides of a bottom terminal but only on the left side of a top terminal to add some flair and uniqueness to this typeface. I kept in mind optical weight of letters and stroke width in adding overshoot to letters with rounded bottoms and keeping some corners between strokes a harder 90° angle and not as curved as others (like the hard angle on the inside corner of the e and a). I also made slight variations on stroke length to help with weight between the top and bottom portion of some letters like s, e, and a. There are mirrored curves along the serifs, inside of the curved strokes and counters, and along many of the outside curves of glyphs. This helps create consistency, like how the shape of a small counter is geometrically similar to the shape of the tittle.
Poster created with typeface
Poster in context
Technical specs of typeface
Film showing similarities between letters
Typeface used as display and label text in exhibit
Numbers created for exhibit
Typeface used as cover and spread text in photo album
Typeface as logo for an airline
Process
I started designing this typeface using physical pieces of spaghetti which I broke into different sized pieces and arranged along a grid. I experimented with different width to height ratios using the letter h and started to trace photographs of the letters in Illustrator. I also experimented in Illustrator with different curves of bracketed services on the letters’ terminals and different amounts of curvature at different joins along the strokes.
