SENIOR EXHIBITION

CREATING A TYPEFACE: GRILLS

Grills is a functioning typeface used for design situations when the user wants a BOLD look. Inspired from dissecting letters in the horizontal and vertical directions with no diagonal lines, Grills was born! Grills consists of an ornamental font, a display font, and three weighted text fonts; light, light italic, medium, medium italic, bold, and bold italic. A laser cutter was used for the production of the installation. The typeface shown in the exhibition was the ornamental font, just the inside guts - no outline. Any way you dissect the letter you are left with a GRILL.

  • Text Specimen

  • Display Specimen

  • Ornamental Specimen

I brought my typeface, Grills, to life by turning the font into an installation piece. The pieces were carved out using a laser cutter from the University’s Maker Space. I loved everything about this installation. From being able to work with my hands to assemble each 1 foot x 1 foot letter, to entering the installation space and being engulfed in a rich, wood-burnt smell that added a lovely element to grasping my typeface’s concept.