Studio Brief 3 - Week 2

Studio Brief 3  - Week 2

Having chosen to continue refining my grid based phototropism inspired typeface in my crit last Friday, this week I have been working on creating the full alphabet, variations of it in different weights or without the grid and creating the my type specimen.

Something which really helped me develop my alphabet was giving handouts to other people on the course and seeing how they created the letterforms, in the case of quite a few letters, it was quite difficult to form them in a legible way, which assured me that I'd created enough rules and enough of a system to have obtained a certain level of continuity within my typeface. Having a couple of examples of how others tried to create the letterforms, I was able to work from them and refine them to create clear characters.

My main concern now is creating my type specimen, I've already planned to produce it by creating a card front and back cover, with a few pages inside. I think I'll use the colour green as a primary colour in the palette to match the natural themes of the words evolutionary and grow. In my type specimen, I will show; the original typeface in its grid, an un-gridded version of it, an un-gridded version with a lighter weight and maybe a bold version, as well as numbers and possibly punctuation. I will show these fonts not only in an alphabet, but forming words and sentences.