The making of the Malina typeface

Overview   Process   Test Drive   Characters  

A kids chocolate packaging needed lettering. A type designer draws out characters which very quickly become quite numerous. Why don’t we turn them into a typeface? The art director supports the idea.

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There is nothing exciting about merely filling in the gaps by designing the missing characters, so we redraw each letter’s shape, alternating the proportions, but keeping the characters similar.

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The type designer experiments with the ligatures. Not bad. Keeping at it.

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Asking our illustrators to draw some animals and patterns. Trying to fit the images in in different ways.

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Playing with the images.

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Intending to bring up each letter’s expressiveness while trying not to overdo it, so that all characters are visually uniform.

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Throwing a set of small caps in.

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Adding the ligatures and ornaments.

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For instance, letter “O” can be easily replaced by a raspberry image.

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