TYPEFACE DESIGN
2025 2024 2023              
BOSTON UNIVERSITY

SADIE SAUNDERS
QUACK!
INSTAGRAM
WEBSITE
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 Quack! was developed as a typeface that is meant to be used in a comic in moments of exposition or narration— it is inspired by the geometric elements of Futura and the handwritten variation in Comic Sans. Comic fonts are san serif scripts rooted in handwriting, which are supposed to be consistent in width, squat, and legible even when printed small and on cheap paper.


Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders






Futura type specimen 







Quack type process by Sadie Saunders


Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders







Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders







Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders






Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders






Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders





Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders






Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders






Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders






Quack type specimen by Sadie Saunders

TYPEFACE DESIGN
2025
2024
2023

INSTRUCTOR
Christopher Sleboda

TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Amanda Mundy (2025), Ash Wei (2024)

DESIGN 
Erica Pritchett · Built with Cargo
ABOUT
This site documents student work from an advanced typeface design course taught by Christopher Sleboda and open to students in the MFA Graphic Design and BFA Graphic Design programs at Boston University, as well as students in the School of Visual Arts—including those in the new Visual Narrative MFA. The course provides a rigorous introduction to the conceptual and technical processes involved in creating original digital typefaces. Students explore the foundations of letterform construction—including structure, proportion, counterform, spacing, and rhythm—while developing their own typefaces.

Through research, sketching, and the use of digital tools like RoboFont, students engage with typographic history and contemporary practice to design functional and expressive typefaces. Each student produces a working font and a printed type specimen. This site showcases the results of that work, reflecting diverse design approaches and a deep engagement with the craft of type design.