Miranda Sans

Typeface Design

Example of Miranda Sans in progress of typeface design process

CLIENT

Personal Project

YEAR

2019

ROLE

Designer

AGENCY

Team

Project Background

Designing my very own typeface

Creating my first typeface Miranda Sans, as you see used here across my portfolio website, has helped me to respect typeface designers and their work. I think I’ve fallen in love with typeface design because of its mix between technical and visual implementation.

On one hand, you really need to understand the technical aspect of creating a typeface. Everything from hinting, kerning, learning a new application (Glyphs) and how interlacing works. On the other hand, you need to be a great designer understanding relationships between various shapes and make it into one family of glyphs that belongs together. No matter the order and font weight.

I truly believe that by creating your own typeface you become a better designer.

Typeface design final results of letter A

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Visual display of all different font weights for Miranda Sans
Over 300 glyphs & Counting

All the glyphs that are a part of the Miranda Sans

In order to create a typeface, there are many glyphs that you need to design. More than you initially might think. Just take my word for it. First of all, you have to create the basic letters in both upper and lower case as well as special characters and numbers.

Interested in creating multiple font-weights? Then you need to create a new version of the same glyphs in a new weight. I created Miranda Sans Regular first and Miranda Sans Bold secondly. Fortunately, by using an application that allowed me to generate all other weights based on the two I created I never had to do this tedious process again.

Enough talking – Let me introduce you to Miranda Sans:

Upper case
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Ö
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Ñ
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Ø
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Ŕ
Ş
Ú
Û
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Ù
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Lower Case
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ť
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Numbers
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Special Characters
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