Yesterday, having some time on my hands, I decided to do a little experimenting with drawing type. Inspired by Jessica Hische and her truly out-of-this-world typographic and illustrative work, I thought it might be fun to try my hand at designing some typefaces too. It was a really interesting and fun project. The sans-serif font, which I'm sure is quite similar to what the first attempt at creating a typeface looks like from most designer's, is all based on the letter 'o'. I discovered that 'o' is really the key to the whole alphabet. It sets the letter widths, x-heights and plays a big roll in the construction of many of the letters. The script face was much more difficult and I didn't end up creating the whole alphabet, only the letters I needed. In the end, I'm really happy with the way that both of the faces look - not too polished, but with a bit of a hand-drawn and personal feel.
Experimentations in Typography, Day 1 = fun!
Have a great Thursday (I can't believe it's already Thursday - I don't want this week to end!),
Bess
I want this week to end! Yeesh you Vienna people and your Vienna extensive holidays.
ReplyDeleteI love that script! How did you do it?
I need my holidays, the kiddies make me crazzzzy!
ReplyDeleteI made both of them in illustrator with the grid turned on. point and click, point and click.
Cool experiments!
ReplyDeleteThat first one is SO stunning. Polished indeed! I love it, just love it.
ReplyDeleteoh, i really like the first one.
ReplyDeleteLOVE this bess! perfectly lovely.
ReplyDeletelove the first one. what will it be called?
ReplyDeleteit reminds me of archer hairline!!!
ReplyDeleteOoo... love this. I left a question on your Flickr stream wanting to know what the font was, but now I see it's all your very own. Nice work. Any thoughts on realeasing it as a font? :)
ReplyDeleteWay to go Bess. Reminds me of the love movement cover from Tribe called Quest
ReplyDeletesuper cool! have you seen the website:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/
- it's kind of silly, kind of fun, kind of hilarious...
thanks the nice comments everyone :) not sure if i'll release it as a font, should investigate how to even do that!!
ReplyDelete@Last Minute Mel: I have done the "what type are you test", I'm archer hairline! Such a fun test, I loved it!