Modular Typography

This was my first Uni project, we were tasked to make a modular typeface, and we explored what that meant and how modular typefaces have been used and created. The modular typography I had seen, was mainly geometric and quite brutalist. I wanted to explore how you can have a modular typeface with more organic and free shapes. I used a pipette and ink to create marks on a piece of paper, the pipette would sometimes create bubbles in the ink which would then pop and create splatter marks around the marks. I thought this effect was interesting and liked the effect when layered up with other modules.

We used the ‘HOMRAS’ technique which is to just create the word ‘HOMRAS’ which then acts as a guide for the rest of the alphabet for example the way that I created the ‘O’ was very similar to how I made the ‘C’ the ‘Q’ and the ‘G’. I named my font ‘Arrival’ due to the O looking very similar to the way the aliens communicate with the humans in the film Arrival.