DDC Hardware is a simplistic, utilitarian typeface inspired by words painted on old buildings, which led him to the typeface we see today. This typeface was made by Aaron Draplin, a critically acclaimed graphic designer, and Riley Cran, a type designer in 2017. DDC hardware is a professional display font, which is used mainly in titles and signs to really “pop out” and get attention of the viewers. It is uses solid lines and slight curves to give it that modern, bold look. There are no lowercase letters in this typeface, but the creators have accounted for accent marks and special characters.

Behance Collection: 

Since DDC Hardware is a display font, we couldn't really make the font size small and still have it look good, so instead of a paragraph, we did a more bullet-point type thing. The final is mostly based off our 3rd draft, but we changed the color scheme since the magenta on top of the yellow and blue seemed to harsh. We went with a simple red, white, and black color scheme, and added gray for the background. Our 3rd draft was also very cluttered, so we got rid of many things we didn't need, like the special characters. Also, I wanted to somehow incorporate the year with the line of numbers, so I just emphasized "2017" so it serves as the year and tells us what the numbers look like compared with the rest. We kept the pangram "the quick brown fox..." because we felt it was more creative than just listing all the numbers, and we were able to do this since DDC Hardware doesn't have any lowercase letters. We really wanted to emphasize the title of the typeface, so we made it red and larger than the other information, while giving it a tilt for some balance. Also, we put the creator names right under "DDC Hardware" and gave it the tilt, as we felt that was the second thing the viewer should see. Finally, we put the 3 different widths in the corner, because, while it is not the most important thing for the viewer to see, it still shows how different they can look when put next to each other. In the end, this poster looks a lot cleaner, less cluttered, and more well-organized than our drafts did.