Saturday, 23 February 2013

Typography Research

For my kinetic text I decided to do some research into British fonts of the 1940s to ensure I capture the look and feel of the time period accurately. Most of the good examples I found are all hand drawn, one off fonts which makes it very difficult to find the exact font. I wanted to use a bold sans serif font to give a certain amount of impact, seeing as the kinetic type needs to emphasise the important parts of the speech and found these 'Dig for Victory' posters:


I decided that Myriad Pro Bold and Myriad Pro Bold Condensed would be a good enough approximation: