We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Chenglong Tao about their original and creative Typeface design work. Chenglong Tao is an award-winning communication designer, that makes our world a better place with their original typeface works.
Chenglong Tao ("CT") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Arch Typeface. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
CT : Find a suitable opportunity to open source or charge for users to download and use
CT : Intermittently for more than a month, because usually there are other jobs, only to stare at a project to do more and more do not feel more appropriate to let go, want to continue to take it up and perfect it until the final completion.
CT : I am engaged in graphic design. Although English is not my native language, my daily work is always faced with cases of composing typefaces in English fonts. The fonts produced by others are used by everyone and there is no personality; I just want to create several sets of my own fonts. Used for work, you like it, have a sense of accomplishment, and personality; in addition, the font itself is a work, and it can also be sold as a product.
CT : Self-produced and sold, if possible, find a platform to sell.
CT : For example: Look at the character "A". His upper part is arc-shaped, like the shape of an arch or arch; this feature is almost interspersed in the design of each character, so this font is called "Arch" .
CT : Use CorelDraw to design the basic character shape. After the font is designed, it is imported into the FontLab Studio debug character spacing, and finally the .otf font file is output.
CT : This is a series of fonts, divided into three sets, but each set of characters for comparison, there are differences in the style of individual characters, because I tried to completely unified style before, after comparison, I feel that you can break the series Fonts must be styled in a unified bondage.
CT : The character sketch is normalized in the software and becomes a finished product.
CT : In our country, there are very few designers who specialize in developing font products independently. In particular, the design of Latin fonts is not taken seriously. The Latin fonts used by users are generally designed and developed by foreign designers, so I have to try to develop them myself. Latin font library.
CT : The uniform style of each character's appearance style, as well as the visual coordination in the layout.
CT : Find problems by doing them, and then modify them to solve the problem; some characters can have a lot of processing methods, and some characters design several solutions at the same time, but you can only take one. After careful consideration, you decide which font is the most suitable Fonts.
