Font Stamp: Takato Oshima's Case
My project is to create stamps using Morisawa typefaces, similar to the ones I normally use on social media and communication apps. By redesigning the words and stamps I use often with typefaces, I'm trying to convey even the finer nuances! This time, I asked professional photographer Takato Oshima to choose the typefaces and words!
Below is the creator's comment.
●What I paid attention to and what I felt when making the stamps
In fact, I had only just started using LINE a few weeks before creating these stamps, and I remember very well the first time I used them. It felt really fresh to be able to use stamps to express subtle emotions that are hard to convey in text, such as emails. So I thought it would be great to create stamps that could convey complex emotions by overlaying the images of fonts onto everyday conversational phrases.
●Reason for using that typeface
For the emoticon ideas, I tried out a variety of fonts, as the same emoticon can have a completely different feel depending on the font, and I agonized over it a lot. For the grass growing idea, I wanted to express something like majestic grass, apart from the standard one, so I used a font that comes with Mincho to express a noble laughter.
●If the stamp you created actually existed, would you want to use it?
I think I'll use Nepali stamps. Actually, this stamp means "I love you," so maybe I won't be embarrassed in those situations...
●Was Morisawa's typeface useful in conveying the impression of your words?
I have many Nepalese friends and have many opportunities to speak Nepali on a daily basis, but there are almost no fonts in the Devanagari script available on computers sold in Japan. The most exciting discovery I made while participating in this project was that a Japanese company has focused on the Devanagari script and is creating fonts for it.
Oshima-san came up with a variety of design ideas based on a simple idea! I think he was able to strongly recognize that the nuance changes depending on the typeface!
(Person in charge: Moripass Department Inada)
This project is being handled by the official student members of the FONT SWITCH PROJECT, the "Moripass Club" students.