Spectral Font Animation

2026 - Master's diploma project

Creating a coherent typographic animation project highlighting the font's characteristics.

The animations were artistically and thoughtfully combined in visual forms with linguistic and cultural content related to the French language, which was the main topic of the diploma.

The font choice is directly referring to French in two ways. The first being the foundry that created it, Production Type, which is based in Paris. The second is through its use since it's one of the two fonts used by the French government.

Through the process the main goal was to create a system for animating the letters that could be repeated for each of them. The system that was created can be divided into 3 steps: the first is animating the squeletton of the letter; then adding the weight, which in this case was bold; and finally adding the serifs