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September 24, 2020 at 8:30 am
talk

My first steps in type design

  • Agnieszka Ewa Olszewska
I would like to speak about my personal story in type design. I grew up in a nonartistic home. I took my steps in art thanks to my talent to draw. I met appreciation in that field. That’s why I started to think about the graphic design department. There I discover typography and totally fall into. I decided to become a professional typographer and type designer. To make it happen I had to solve many problems I meet on my way. Face critique and the fact that typography contains many rules I didn't know at that time. I also struggle with that I wasn’t skilled at the beginning. I didn’t have anyone around to help me with advice on how to exactly do a good font. So I had on my own check what works and whatnot. I want to describe my attempts and show some examples. I did around 10 fonts. Some of them were rather bad but I learned thanks to them. Some finally started to look good. I will show you some of my fonts from the beginning and tell a few words about them.

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