Early font work – Qualtagh

March 2010

Last stage of font before I decided to re-work the design entirely as I felt it had many fundamental flaws and wasn't generally proving to be the purpose-centered design I wanted.

Uppercase and lowercase were completed along with some punctuation, a handful of ligatures and diacritics as well as a few Open Type alternate characters.

Qualtagh – g

January 2010

Development of a single-story lowercase 'g' which was one of the first letters of the font. Printed sample looking especially at the curves and contours of the letter.

Qualtagh – early lowercase

February 2010

One of the early versions of the lowercase testing a more text-focused alternative without the extending slabs.

First sketches – chalk

January 2010

Quick, free letter chalk drawings in A3 black paper sketchbook. Started just for fun, these turned out to be the start of the Qualtagh typeface.

Twelve

May 2008

Very first attempt at font design, started in late 2007 and developped on and off until May 2008. The goal was a geometric sans serif with extensive multilingual support. While a good exercise in typeface design, it was lacking in a noteable distinctive personality and clear purpose, so it remains in the archives as practice.

A character set of over 300 glyphs was completed: uppercase, lowercase, numerals, puncuation, ligatures, diactritical marks and special characters. Metrics are fully present but not kerning.