Finishing Up Bitmap Font

Typography 1 is now over and below is the result of finishing the last project for Michael of the semester. I successfully made a bit type out of pretzels to depict the following words: Pretzel, crunchy, and salty treat. After a little modification of my width, tracking, counter space, and x-height, I have cohesively presented the following final project below.

Creating Bitmap Fonts

In typography we are creating bitmap typefaces out of objects by placing these objects on 10 x 10 grids and photographing them. I have decided to use pretzels, to create three different bitmap type fonts.

Here are the sketches I did before taking my pictures. The red dot by any of the pictures indicate the x-height of the letter.

Vector vs. Bitmap

VECTOR:

PRO:

-Made of points, lines, curves and can form and create complex objects.

-Can be filled with color, gradient, and patterns.

-Can be freely manipulated without losing definition of the vector graphic.

-Ideal for logo/graphic that needs to be resized often for different jobs without losing quality.

CON:

-Does not define quality as high as photography or bitmap graphics.

BITMAP:

PRO:

-Most common graphic format used on the computer and internet.

-Composed of pixels which help show shading.

CON:

-When the size of the bitmap graphic is changed, especially enlarged, the image becomes blurry because it needs more pixels to fill the space. When a bitmap graphic is reduced in size, pixels are taken out of the picture to comprehend the new size.