I took a short summer course to learn typography design. I have been developing a love-hate relationship with fonts for years now. There are many beautiful fonts, but so many awful fonts too so it can take hours to find the perfect one that works for its planned purpose. And I have heard that it can take years to develope a font to work properly, so now I respect even more the dedication some designers put in to their work!

On the course we went through some basic rules of typography and learned how to make fonts with FontStruct (free and simple to use) and FontLab (for professional usage and licensed).

As the course lasted only two weeks, I didn’t spend so much time planning my designs, I went more ‘with the flow’. My Arrow font was made with FontStruct, Forssa and MrMoustache with FontLab (well, more with illustrator and adjustments made on FontLab).

Not sure if I really plan to design REAL fonts some day, but this was a good start. Arrow, Forssa and MrMoustache are rough samples, but in my dreams I want to be like the Queen of Typography, Jessica Hische :D!

Background story for the fonts/titles:
Forssa: My birthtown. Love/Hate relationship with this one too.
MrMoustache: Dedicated to moustached AD I worked with for three years. I learned so much from him about graphic design and the most important – how NOT to shoot with a shotgun (Sehän on kuin haulikolla ammuttu = that is like fired from a shotgun (badly made design))
Arrow: Not so much story behind this one, just being arrow-ish :).