Meet the Team: A Mini-Italics Tutorial From Fabiola Mejía
Fabiola is an independent type designer from Costa Rica. In 2017, she completed the Type@Cooper Condensed Program in NYC, and in 2019, she received an MA in Typeface Design from TypeMedia in The Netherlands. Apart from working remotely with Dinamo from San José, she recently founded SUPERCONTINENTE—a research space and archival platform dedicated to her type design practice and collaborative graphic explorations.
Fabi joined by her new assistant Lira
And Fabi on a team call. Also: Say hello to our second newest team member Olga
Mini Italics Tutorial
It was Fabiola who worked on the italics of ABC Camera. And so below, Fabiola takes us through the task of angling of the typeface, with and without its holes:
“In general, the drawing process involved rotating upright glyphs by half of the italic angle defined and then slanting by another half.”
“From there, my time was spent making verticals and horizontals straight again and adjusting the (distorted) shapes while making sure things interpolated smoothly.”
Note: The holes stay upright while the character slants ☝️
“Once the plain style was done, I moved on to the bulleted style, which was the main challenge.”
“We decided to keep the bullets as circular and round as possible, which involved careful adjustments so as to not exaggerate tension.”