Karla Burns

These are a selection of my font designs I created for a university project in which I was given four modular shapes: a square, a circle, a pill and a triangle.  These are the fonts I created by incorporating those shapes.

Cheese Mouse.

This was my first design, I decided to keep it simple by just using a circle and cutting out smaller circles for the counters, I feel it is quite a useable font, that would work well for titles and such.

Squarmetric.

This font I created by using the square as my body and using the pill to cut out the shapes of each letter.  I was quite pleased with this design, it’s not as predictable as the first and I think it all fits well together, like a jig saw.  It again is a very useable font, bold and slab in style it would make quite a statement.

Ice Lolly.

This font I created using the triangle and pill shape to create the letter shape and then I incorporated the pill for the counters of the letters.  I think the choice of two different colours really adds to this font and makes it font, it splits each letter up into sections but pulls the entire font together.  It a more abstract font from my previous fonts, the letters would read well in a word or sentence but some on their own might be a bit too difficult to decipher.  All in all though I was very pleased with this font design, it’s playful, it’ s different, it’s unique and it is very useable.

Click Fit.

This font I created by using the triangles by altering the sizes and fitting them together to create the letter shapes.  I used a different colour for each triangle and I think that that makes this font very successful, and the use of white space, the triangles are not tight there’s air between them that makes it flow better.  The colours aren’t bright and cheerful, they are very useable and this makes it professional.  It’s a very sharp, industrial, masculine font that would work well as signage for trucks and such.

Bubblegum.

I had so much fun creating this font, it is such a fun font; the colours, the fonts.  I created this font by using the pill shape, each of different colours and all over laying each other.  The colours are playful and I think this font design would work so well for branding for something fresh and fun, and I created a mini logo by using the pill shape and I think it worked so well.  The ‘v’ needs some work it looks tiny in comparison to the rest of the fonts.  This is a very useable font and I am so proud of it.