Headline Activity

For this activity we were given some existing headlines and asked to recreate them accurately by finding and using the same fonts and recreating the layout and colour schemes.

RIGHT SIDE: Original                                                                                      LEFT SIDE: Mine

Font: Bodini XT
To create this headline I had to decrease the spacing between the letters and increase the A's in size

Font: Bodoni XT and Gills Sans Ultra Bold
To create this headline I had to align the letters so that they lined up diagonally and alter the spacing so that the letters were closer together. I also had to change the spacing between lines so that the lines at the top and base of the letters were connected.

Font: Helvetica Neue Ultra Light
To create this font I had to decrease the space between the letters and between the lines and line them up to reflect the original. I also had to create my own W using the line tool because this was a custom change the designer had made and was not part of the existing font.

Font: Upper Case - Helvetica Neue Medium + LowerCase - Helvetica Neue Regular

For this headline I had to use a mix of the uppercase and lowercase letters to match the original. The uppercase letters had to then be decreased in size to match the lowercase and had to be done in helvetica medium instead of regular to match the stroke. I also had to add a 0.5 black stroke on the uppercase and 0.75 on the lowercase to match the stroke of the original headline. I changed the spavin between the letters and aligned them so that all the 'e's lined up straight. 

Font: akaChen

For this headline I had to decrease some of the spacing, align the letters to match the original and add a 0.75 stroke to match the thickness of the original. 

Font: Courier New

For this headline I had to decrease the spacing between the letters and add a 0.25 stroke to the font. I also added the lines above and below the letters using the line tool and created the spirals using the spiral and pen tools. 

Font: Futura
To recreate this I first made the background using the gradient tool and made various lines that matched the stroke thickness of the original using the line tool. I then positioned the font in-between the lines and sized it and changed the spacing to match the original. The original was a custom version of the futura font and the designer had added little flicks on the ends of certain letters so I added these in using the pen tool.

Font: Hand painted by me
This headline was hand made and was not a font so to recreate this I used a purple paint to hand paint it, trying to mimic the lines of the original as best I could.