Today I "finished" my typeface for Study Task 2. Before today all I needed to finish was the italic font. I had previously started working on this by hand, but after re-visiting it I decided to do it digitally, as I've learned from previous sessions in Design Principles that not all typefaces use Italics, some use Obliques, which are a sheared version of the regular font, although this mainly applies to Gothic fonts.
One thing I did notice when looking at the font before I did the obliques however is that it did look very much like a Gothic font as opposed to a Roman one, due to the line weights, which were only inconsistent in the Bold font. I'd been referring to it as a Roman font on the basis that I was intending to add Serifs to it on completion, but it has since sunk in to my head that weather a typeface has serifs or not isn't what decides if it's Roman or Gothic.
Clearly my typeface is a Gothic one, and I'm happy with it as I do feel the glyphs do work together. Because of this I have decided against adding serifs to it, hence why I questioned my earlier use of the the term finished. But because of this uncertainty I'm going to develop another typeface that I hope will be more successful than this one due to my understanding of fonts increasing as I've developed this typeface.
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