'Pantjoran' Typeface Design

Glodok Chinatown has been a residential area of Chinese descent in West Jakarta since the Dutch colonial era in Indonesia. This design project implemented the vernacular form of the Glodok Chinatowns' shophouse in the medium of letters. In the design process, the data gathering phase is done online through literature study, visuals, and interviews. The collected data were analyzed visually and become the concept plus the basis for designing the typeface's overall visual. The final result of this project are dark and light Latin display type called 'Pantjoran', which is divided into sans-serif and serif types. Each font type consists of letters, numbers, symbols, and diacritical marks in Chinese. The final letters also implemented in the medium of posters and specimen books. The designed display type represents the vernacular form of the Glodok Chinatown shop area, into a traditional and authentic form as well as following the typographical rules.