Font specimen – Pamplemousse serif
BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course
2022
semester
Pamplemousse is the serif font I designed. It hasthe same skeleton as the font Minion Pro, is a serif typeface released in 1990, designed by Robert Slimbach. It is inspired by late Renaissance era type
and intended for body text and extended reading. I designed the digital versionof my font with Adobe Illustrator. With the Adobe Illustrator plugin FontSelf, I did the kerning and generated the Open Typefont file (OTF). To present my fonts appropriately, I created a Typeface Specimen for both of them.
My serif typeface, Pamplemousse, is an elegant font that presents a moderate contrast between thin and thick lines. Oblique shading is prevalent and also sharp beak terminal and oblique serifs can often be found in my typeface design.