Faculty of Design

Graphic Design

Seohee Park

4) HOUND Typeface

HOUND TypefaceHound is a unique display typeface named after the well known hunting dog, hound. This typeface is named "Hound" due to its sharp and tapered tails -- tail shape resembles the shape of a hound’s tooth. Since its a display typeface, Hound should be used as minimum 20 pt font size and up to be legible. This typeface is suitable for big heading, logotype, and title. Stems are thick to create an effective display font. Hound has 2 different stem/stroke weights for uppercase and lowercase. This typeface is classified as transitional because of the vertical stress and wider proportion. It also contains compressed counters of the modern type and moderate contrast in stroke weight like grotesque type. humanist type.