Numerus

Throughout my life I have always been influenced by music and sound, surrounded by family and friends who have been involved in the music industry. Numerus is a project based around a deep study of the relationship between sound and typeface formation. I wanted to create a sound reactive program in which when you made a sound, my own typeface design would react to the sounds, creating movement and evolution.

I created two main outcomes for this project:

Variable typeface 'Numerus'

Sound reactive code *click link below*

Reactive Code Link

Sound reactive code depicting sound waves in which I integrated a custom made variable typeface

DESIGN PROCESS

In my process I wanted to focus on translating sounds into design, especially lettering. Firstly I experimented with how many different ways I could illustrate sound waves, which then developed into how I would imagine typography being expressed as sounds.

This is a sketch of a design proposal for typography based on sound waves, experimenting with how many bars I should use to make it both legible and visually appealing.

Glyphs: A software for creating typography. I designed the variable typeface in here to then be exported for external use.

'Numerus' (rhythm in latin) is the variable typeface in which I designed to be added to the sound reactive code. It is consisted of 8 different variables, entirely customisable, and is inspired by sound wave bars.

Projection of the reactive code

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