Study Task 01 - OUGD403

As a starter project, we were asked to answer a few straightforward questions and present to the rest of the class. From the answers we give, you'd then be driven to a conclusion of what font best reflects your personality. The fonts we had to chose from were Massimo Vignellis 6 basic typefaces, which consists of:

• Garamond
• Bodoni
• Century Gothic
• Futura
• Times Roman
• Helvetica

The questions we were asked to investigate were as follows:

1. When are you happiest?

That moment when you're in-between mixing songs together and it sounds seamless.

Screenshot of Traktor, a DJ software used alongside a MIDI controller.

2. What is your greatest fear?

Untidiness. I have to be tidy to feel organised, I swear I have some form of OCD.

A snapshot of my worst nightmare.

3. What is your happiest memory?

When I was 11 years old, I built my first computer and nothing could beat the feeling of turning it on first time and it actually working.

Picture of my desk space before moving to Leeds.

4. What is your most embarrassing moment?

Shaking a tomato ketchup bottle, sounds like a pretty standard practice. Not the time I went to meet my ex girlfriends parents it wasn't… I was sat at the dinner table in the dining room with her family, after I was kindly passed the bottle, I started to shake, it became clear to everyone that the lid was not on properly. But, unaware of the huge mistake I'd made, it was too late, I shook again. Ketchup all over the wall, not to mention myself. Moral of the story, check the lid before you shake anything.

The very same kind of ketchup bottle that caused all the mayhem.

5. What makes you unhappy?

Letting people down. There's nothing I can't bare more than when I have to make it up to someone because I never had seen it through in the first place.

Black seemed an appropriate shade that goes perfect with the question.

6. What did you want to be growing up?

I looked up to my father whilst he studied his degree in computer science. So naturally, I wanted to be a software architect/programmer.

A snapshot of a common style of code called Javascript.

7. What is your guiltiest pleasure?

Procrastination. We all do it, right?

Humorous variation of the PlayStation logo. Project by Viktor Hertz aptly named 'Honest Logo's'.

8. What is your favourite hobby?

I have a hell of a lot of hobbies so it is hard to pick just one, but if I have to narrow it down, I'd have to say fish keeping is my outright favourite hobby. 

Picture of some discus I had raised since they were a couple of months old.

9. Where is your favourite place?

Having extended family that come from Hungary you can imagine I've visited it quite a few times. For this reason, my favourite place has to undoubtedly be Budapest, Hungary.

A beautiful snapshot of Budapest's skyline.

Having studied all questions, I have come to my conclusion in finding which type fits me best. But I wanted to look more in depth about what the fonts mean and what they represent. Having looked at all of the appropriate typeface's I can easily say my outright favourite is Futura. It simply appeals to me more than the others, that's not to say the other 5 fonts are irrelevant, it just means when used in the correct context, each font can always be as good as the other. I think Futura reflects my personality more than the other options. Reading about it's links to the Bauhaus made me realise what this type really means and just how far ahead of it's time it was, and of course being a big fan of the Bauhaus movement helped swing my decision.

The front page to the original Futura specimen booklet.