EVE WHELAN

               The Bauhaus movement created a variety of simplistic and modern fonts, with a lack of extravagance. Josef Albers believed it could be stripped back even more and that a typeface could be created from only 10 stencil components. This was a purely lower-case font as a lot of the Bauhaus fonts were.   I was given the 10 components and tried to create a typeface from them. This was then compared to Albers’ actual font, there are some similarities with letters with the I, N, O and X being the same and the E, H, K, P, Q and Y being a pretty close match. However, a lot of letters are drastically different such as the A and G. My typeface created from Josef Albers 10 stencil components. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/2724?artist_id=97&locale=en&sov_referrer=artist

               The font is a collection of letters, numbers and symbols. Whereas the typeface is the actual design of it. Typography in design can be just as important as the image itself. It can convey a wide range of themes and feelings to provide the overall piece with more impact.                A lot of fonts were inspired by the Bauhaus movement; they progressed from the extravagant, hard to read calligraphy styles to the simplistic, minimal fonts. A great example of an iconic Bauhaus font is the Universal font created by Herbert Bayer in 1925. The whole font is based around the circle and the font is quite often used tilted slightly to the left to give it a sense of movement and to almost bring it to life a little. A slightly more modern version of a Bauhaus font is Helvetica, created by Eduard Hoffman in 1953. Helvetica keeps with the s...