Typeface“Mr Eaves” Specimen
For this project, I made a specimen for a typeface, “Mr Eaves”. After reading the backgraound story and doing reasearch for “Mr Eaves.” I decied the style of the specimen and want to make it looks clean and modern. I picked red with black and white color combination for this specimen. It is a sample and clean combination and gives a modern sense also.
For the cover, I used a black background and the typeface's name with a thin red line. I left more space around the title to make the cover looks clean and straightforward. I also used the same design concept for the back cover. It let the cover have a uniform look.
For the first contents page, I used the same style of the cover title, words with a thin red line, for the content's title. I also used the same design on the section titles and the headers to make a uniformity for the whole book.
In the about section, because Mr Eaves is the sans-serif companion to Mrs Eaves. I put a quote, "Behind every great man. There is a great woman" to make some interesting. I used red to highlight the words man and women that will make it to connect to the next page that is a page with a mirror reflection design of Mr. Eaves and Mrs. Eaves to show the meaning of the quote. In this book, I used the same way many times to highlight the keywords and made them connected to the designs that I made. On this page, I used red to fill the dots, and it connected to the red words before. Also, one large and one small size circle showed the sizes of man and woman.
In the introduction of Mr Eaves Sans and Modern families page, I also used red to highlight the keywords that follows the main style.
For the weight section, I made a fade-away design by using different typeface weights to show the contrast from the weight heavy to the thin.
In the anatomy section, I created some funny pages to show the unique letter designs of Mr Eaves typeface. For example, I used red circles to highlight the counter forms of the b,d,p,q. The special shortened flag and tail design of the j,f,t, that made a cleaner, sans serif look. I used some imaginary lines to show the cutting. For a,e,g, they have the same shortened design, and I used red circles to highlight them also. The lower-case c in Mar eaves is a unique letter. It cut from a ball shape, and the top and the bottom are symmetric. Therefore, I made two pages to show the cutting shape and the up and down balance. The Sans Italic lower case v,w,z were unusually flamboyant for a sans italic design, and they are my favorite letters. The most significant departure here is the width of the characters. The extra narrow gauge and delicate features seemed more appropriate for the Serif than the Sans. I put different weights of the letters on the page to show the varying width of the characters. On the right side, I used red lines to mark the unusual and unique design part out.
In the spacing section, I left a space between the "Spac" and "ing" to show the meaning of spacing, and it also was a metaphor for the kerning. In the next page, the imaginary underline showed the leading of Mr Eaves. The sentence was an explanation of the red highlight words. It showed why Mr Eaves used "distinctly loose-fitting" spacing because it wanted to "renders the kind of lightness and airiness when setting text."
The next one is the showcase part. Because the background of the letters is black, I did not want to make this page looks too heavy. Therefore, I did not use the same style as in the sections' beginning before but left it white to keep the colors' balance. To connect the style before, I left a small black box abounding the words that were the same style of black background with white tittle. There was the same design with the usage and colophon titles also.
For the numbers, I put a zero with red color around the one to nine numbers and the same on the punctuation page. I put different brackets around the punctuations to make the page looks clean and in order.
For the last part, the usage and colophon pages, because there are many texts on the pages, I used the same red highlighting style as before to mark the keywords. It was convenient for readers to get primary information fast.
For the back page, I used same color combination to connect to the cover design style. Also, make sure the style is unified for the whole specimen.