01 CONTEXT
Discovering & picking fonts
In class, we were assigned a project in which we were to design an app that helps users discover fonts. Within our project brief we were given the following requirements.
Your mobile app must be scaled for your device and include:
A home screen
A complete character chart screen with at least two interactions across the entire specimen set
Three additional screens focused on key typeface characteristics for a set of characters (e.g. Aa, 123, or sample punctuation)
A credits/citations screen
02 SOLUTION
"omg! Your handwriting looks like a font!"
Back in elementary school when I put effort into making my handwriting legible (and not complete chicken scratch), my classmates have told me that they wish they had my handwriting!
I think a lot of people (designers and non-designers alike) have been told that their handwriting is pretty and they wished it was a font. While there is a lot of design decisions that go into creating professional typefaces, I think there is definitely a demand / interest in more casually created fonts that people can easily share & download to use on personal projects / note-taking.
Discover professional & amateur typefaces
Learn what makes a font unique
Create your own typefaces
Publish your fonts and join a community
