Letters thats are placed around us (street signs, stores, restaurant menus, the covers of books) have their own story. Some may say that they are speaking to us, - telling something beyond the literal text - emotions. However whatever they represent is a modern, finely crafted, fantastical ilussion.
Designer Martina Flor explains how we percive shapes, colors and textures of letters.
-What's your favourite font? Do you have one?
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
Designer Martina Flor explains how we percive shapes, colors and textures of letters.
-What's your favourite font? Do you have one?
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
Comments
In my opinion, speaking in the future will disappear and communication will be done through the minds of people. As communication was through linguistic communication, but now through writing (expressing thoughts and emotions), in the future, you can communicate with someone by thinking about someone through specific devices.
No, I've never tried drawing my own letters and creating my personal font, but I think that it's pretty challenging task, for sure.
I think that's very unlikely that people will be using symbols instead of letters in distant future. We are so used to letters that it seems almost impossible for us to transfer to the new language of symbols altogether. Also using symbols could create some very unnecessary complications because most of the information gathered by humanity use some type of alphabet of letters (maybe with exception of ancient Egyptians).
When I was 8 I was fascinated with drawing different images and letters as well. It was pretty memorable experience but now I don’t have any passion to do it.
To my mind in the nearest future people most likely will use animate emojis to communicate with each other(of course it’s a joke)because most companies actively developing this technology.
I think that symbols already are in a big use - think about emojis. But I think that it will never completely replace written words.
I really like San Francisco and Billabong fonts.
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
No, I didn't.
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
All human history we moved from hieroglyphs to what we have now. I think it will be step back, if we start to use symbols again.
I usually use Calibri instead of typical default choice for Microsoft Word, which is Times New Roman. I also like Helvetica. I think those fonts have more style than the default Times New Roman.
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
When I was doodling during classes at school out of boredom. I drew figures, persons and also fancy graffiti-like letters. They were usually bold and drew in 3D.
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
I think that memes is a certain sign that people are starting to use symbols instead of words. In digital era we use less resources, so also less signs, when we can use "pictograms" of XXI age - memes, emojis, giphs.
I do not have one, but it is not Comic Seans. I mostly use Arial which is not very cool right now.
Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
Unfortunately not, I had bad and unreadable handwriting.
Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
No, letters still be very useful, but we more and more use icon or pics to describe something.
-What's your favourite font? Do you have one?
May be if I would have the need to use some font other then standard one I would have a favorite one but for now I don't
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
I had a design class once where we had to draw our own symbols but I ended up with finding examples on the internet.
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
Nah, don't think so. People are too lazy to do that.
Hard to tell, mostly it depends on the whole book, game or movie design. Sometimes even the posters and pictures have very good and nice fitted font.
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
Long time ago I tried, but this was hard to achieve above any of the technical written letters.
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
Not really, the writing systems could change, but it's too deeply connected in human culture to resign from this and use just symbols when precise context may be important.
1. I don’t have my favorite font and can only recognize the most popular ones. First and foremost font should be easily readable,
2. I have never tried it.
3. In my opinion that is not going to happen as letters are one of the most common form of human communication.
I have been drawing some of the fonts when I was a kid, but I have never created anything remarkable nor worth any attention. It was just a way of having fun and doing something creative. I can't even recall how any of them looked like.
Hopefully, people wouldn't ever stop using letters. The idea itself seems really weird for me and I count on it not ever becoming a part of the reality. We are using a lot of symbols these days (for example emojis,) but it still doesn't seem like we're going to replace the letters with anything else. It's just some extensions to the written language that could help us with expressing our feelings on the paper.
2. No and I don’t like calligraphy.
3. Do you mean like for example emotes? Some other forms of communication may replace written language at some point but it won’t be symbols. Since letters of our alphabets are set of already established symbols.
Yes, when I was very young. Nowadays, it is very funny but a few years ago I was very serious during writing letters to my family members. I'm really glad that I grew up in those times.
I think that 'emoji' are new symbols. It's strange because emails/phone messages have replaced letters but nowadays people are sending only icons... If you are happy you don't have to write it in full sentence because you can send only 'smiley face'.
We already use symbols instead of words in our everyday life, they are called emojis;) And I think that in future people will use more symbols, because everything in our life is changing to be more simple and fast.
I have even tried to create my own language when I was very young. I think that symbol could be used only for some quick answers in chat between friends.
2. Probably when I was little, and now my own typeface is my handwriting. Some people believe that he can tell a lot about things.
3. I do not think, it seems to me that this would not be logical, because the languages will not disappear anywhere, letters and hieroglyphs (Chinese and Japanese) will be used as usual and introduce one more symbol as for me it makes no sense. The body language for me will tell you more about communication, and for this it is not necessary to use the pen and leaf at all.
Once I had classes with calligraphy in my school. It was a great experience, we ended up with our self-projected alphabet. I designed most minimal and modest letters of all students in group.
I think that this way of communication is very ingrained and will be very hard to replace. On the other hand writing din't evolve for thousand years and there must be better way to do it.
Yes, when I was a younger I was doing it for long time, once I even get grade at school.
I don't think so that we can switch from letter to symbols. In my opinion it will be much harder and it will extend communication proccess
I like the calibri but I don' have a favourite one.
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
I tried many times and twice in life a made good looking words and a tattoo .
-Do out think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
now we are using a lot of symbols so in the future , as everybody want the world simplified they surely will be more symbols and more and letters would become ancient .
No, I don't care about things like this. For me it should be readable and eye catching. That's it.
-Have you ever tried drawing your own letters?
Nope, but it seems like a fun.
-Do you think that in a distant future people are going to use symbols instead of letters?
I don't think so, because that's what have changed since the first human. We came from symbols to letters.
That's what I was asking for!