Monoraster was the first project in my final year thesis project: A Year in Typography. Monoraster is new way of setting type digitally which was discovered after engaging in a three month long research period detailed in Workshop Research. What Monoraster allows the user to do is set images of letters rather than having to create sharp vectors. The images of the letters can have texture, colour and everything else possible with a raster image. The actual design of the typeface for this particular example of type set with Monoraster is my answer to a question I had: why hasn’t there been a sign painter inspired monospaced typeface?

Monoraster is written as a script for Scriptographer for use in Adobe Illustrator.

School Project