Typeface Design

I invented a typeface!
Am I excited about it? Oh yes. Very. Typing doesn't do this justice.

We spent the entire term sketching, refining, and eventually kerning (that was a huge pain and I doubt I'll ever be finished with the kerning) our respective typefaces.

Other than the actual invention of the typeface we had to create a promotional piece of some sort to help advertise. This is the promotional piece for mine (one of the two - the second suffered through a rather terrible photoshoot and I haven't salvaged a picture of it just yet).
It's a roughly 36" long, accordion-fold, type specimen (and a huge pain in my butt).
Nobody wants to print one copy of a 36" x 5.5" student project. 500 of them sure. But not one.

Other than the usual printing-as-a-student drama I love this. I love the typeface. I love life.
It still needs a lot of work. It's a working typeface (I had a little joy fit when I first typed with it) but it still needs a lot of technical refinement.

The missing thing (which you'll see as soon as I fix the pictures) is a little rocket ship that was a companion piece to the big folded specimen. It was full of white chocolate wafers that had the entire alphabet (upper and lower case) carved into the faces.