Font Specimen – Alkama Serif
Student
Lecturer/s
Course topic/s
Course/s
BA Design Warm-Up – Foundation Course
Year
2022
semester
My serif font called “Alkama” is created on the base of the original font “Sabon” I took as reference. It’s a serif font designed by Jan Tschichold in 1967. I changed the serifs, the stroke thickness and I adapted also some letters so that they got unique. For creating it I drew the skeleton of every single letter on Adobe Illustrator and when I had finished all my adjustments on Alkama I put it in Fontself which is a Plugin for Illustrator to match the letters on the keyboard with my letters and adjusted the tracking between the letters. Alkama has a mysterious but also elegant character and can be especially used for texts with a dramatic or fantasy context.
