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Font design 
Typography - Creating a Font
Students had to create a font using Fontforge/inkscape
Rubric Code: TX978W3
By danielparent
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Subject: Arts and Design  
Type: Assignment  
Grade Levels: 9-12

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Students had to create a Font using Fontforge/Inkscape that fits a chosen font family.
  Exceptional

10 pts

Strong

8 pts

Needs refinement

6 pts

Developing

4 pts

Needs improvement

0 pts

Designing with Text

Student used an existing font from Illustrator to develop a creative original design and used it to form the alphabet
Exceptional

Student did an outstanding job at developing a really creative and original font. The design was well thought out and used nicely in the alphabet
Strong

Student did a strong job developing an original designed font and applied it to the alphabet
Needs refinement

Student attempted to create an original design, but the font was not consistent enough to look unifed
Developing

Student has developed an idea but requires extensive work to bring it together into a working piece.
Needs improvement

little consideration was made when attempting to design the font.
Fit a font family

Exceptional

The font was designed with a font family in mind, and each character's construction reflects that.
Strong

the character construction often reflects the intended font family.
Needs refinement

The characters were designed with a font family in mind, though they often struggle reflect that family.
Developing

Greater attention needed to be paid to constructing a font aimed for a specific family.
Needs improvement

Little to no attempt was made at fitting the intended font family.
Craftmanship

Project was carefully worked on, left free of smudges, tears, or glue marks
Exceptional

Student took care all through assignment and turned in an immaculate piece of artwork
Strong

Student crafted letters in a way that resulted in a strong well developed font.
Needs refinement

Student needs to refine their idea further to create a usable font. Grater attention could be paid to letter creation
Developing

Student must further develop their letter making strategies for their font to be successful.
Needs improvement

Little effort was made to create adequate lettering.
Letter construction

Students developed a font using proper Cap height, X-height and Kerning
Exceptional

All Letters are made with attention paid to Cap-height, X-height, and kern.
Strong

All Letters are made with attention paid to both Cap-height and X-height more attention could be paid to the kern, but the font is workable overall
Needs refinement

All Letters are made with attention paid to both Cap-height and X-height, the kern was vastly overlooked.
Developing

Most letters are made with Cap-height and X-height in mind, little attention was paid to the kern of the letters.
Needs improvement

Little attention was paid to the cap-height, or X-height, kern was not considered.
Font Legibility

Exceptional

The font can be read easily, each letter is clear and distinct. The letters are of uniform height.
Strong

The font can be read easily.
Needs refinement

The font can be read with some difficulty. occasionally letters are difficult to decipher
Developing

It is a struggle to read the font.
Needs improvement

The font cannot be read.
Use of class time

Exceptional

The student used class time appropriately all through out the assignment
Strong

The student was rarely , if ever off task.
Needs refinement

the student was occasionally off task, but managed to complete their work on schedule
Developing

The student struggled to stay on task and was often focused on other matters.
Needs improvement

little to no attention was paid to finishing the assignment.



Keywords:
  • Graphic Arts



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