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Eko Bimantara, the font maker who has basics in art and illustration before started making fonts in 2016. Always interested and focused in aesthetic, functionality, legibility, fit for branding and broad design purposes. His works stretched across styles and themes and have been trusted by large enterprises, local and international.ย Strives to provide design which shows quality, either conceptually and artistically.

Q&A with Eko Bimantara

Q: How did you get into graphic design/app & software development/typography?
A: I’ve been interested in art and design stuff since I was a kid, and got basic in art and illustration in college. A couple times involved in book layout projects. So I engage with fonts a lot. In 2016 I made my first font and it’s so pleasurable. Then I started seriously selling it in 2019.

Q: How would you describe your design process?
A: In general, font work is divided into several stages: idea exploration, planning and then design execution which is dominated by: drawing and spacing. If you can read Indonesian, I explain a little about creating fontsย here. When starting making a font I used to explore the characters first. Most of the time I made a draft of the characters before they were developed into fonts, for example, I made a lot of “a” letters, I drew them to create their personality, named them, and put them in a characters collection folder. When I decided to develop a font, I chose one of the characters from that folder and expanded the typographic elements from that character into a character set from A-Z, a-z, numbers and punctuations.

Q: What is a fun fact about yourself?
A: People may see an inconsistent pattern in my works, it is because I have an excitement to explore a lot of things in the visual art and design field. In the past I used to do illustration as main job and design as a hobby, now I’m making fonts as main job and made paintings as a hobby ๐Ÿ˜€

Q: What is most challenging about your line of work?
A: I’ve done several works cross-disciplinary, from paintings, logo identity, murals, illustration, comic books, and what makes fonts different from the rest is the functionality. Not only am I creating a work that is aesthetically good, but it also can be used by other people and benefit them. My first font family called Syabil is the ambitious one that made me take a deep dive into the discipline. The initial purpose is simply to make a font that easy to read. But that “easy to read” is not easy enough to create. There’s a lot of aspects that constitute the legibility of a typeface, and within this regard I found that I am not yet satisfied enough with the reach of all the works I have made.

Q: What can we expect from you next?
A: I think I’ve got a lot more ideas to expand my works in terms of quality and try to offer something fresh and new to the market.

Q: Bonus: Coffee or tea (or what is your go-to drink)?
A: I prefer tea to accompany me to arrange kernings ๐Ÿ˜€

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