FINAL 'DAY TYPE'

My final letters

My final poster which promotes my Typeface.

I tried to include a variety of different examples of my font to give the viewer a good understanding of how it would look in a heading, body of text and in different sizes.

I included a cool grey and warm reds for some of the text and background to make the poster more visually pleasing. I also decided to put the name of my typeface (Day Type) diagonal to make it more eye catching and strong.

ROUGH SKETCHS

These where my two shapes which i started off with. this allowed me to piece together letters fast and simply. Because these shapes are in most letters i.e P , B, O , L , D, etc. i was easy to create my typeface and keep it all in the same style.

shape which i created to make the curves in some of the letters. this enabled me to create letters faster and more accurately. As you can see here the shape/stroke in the top left corner was used to create the S in the bottom right corner.

Playing around with more letters and how they look.

Started building my typeface in illustrator.

Practiced just drawing different styles of letters. using different stress or serifs.

HOMEWORK TASKS

TRAJAN LETTERING

my task was to trace my name in trajan lettering.

Below is my finished name in Trajan Lettering.

ILLUMINATED LETTERING

My task was to find the initials of my name ( using the book of Kel as an example) in illuminated letters

Inspiration

During the beginning stages of designing my typeface I looked into other fonts which I liked and found aesthetically pleasing. Below are some typefaces which I found interesting and some which inspired my typeface.

Letter forms made out of buildings. I found it interesting the negative space between the buildings force your eye to create the letter forms.

Alphabet designed in the style of paper folding.

I enjoyed this alphabet because it forces you to figure out what each letter is.

However even though I thought this alphabet was creative, it isn't easy to read and would lose alot of its detail and style in a smaller font size.

This is a graffiti style alphabet which I liked due freedom and flow in the letters. However like the others wouldnt work well as a text when putting words together.

This style of letting was very appealing to me as it caught my eye and had a fun feel to it. I found it creative how the letters force your eye to piece together what letter is being implied.

However like some of the previous these letters are strenuous on the eyes and are very difficult to read and would not work well in a body of words.

I was really attracted to this style of font as the letters all still flow well together even though they are all in different styles. i.e the different amounts of stress on each letter and the use of serifs and no serifs.

After looking at very creative and 'out of the norm' styles of type, I decided to look up more traditional font styles which I enjoy. One I am very fond of is Gothic style type.

I liked the fancy flow of the tails on the capital letters, however I think if it was used in a heading, it would look clustered and distracting.

The simplicity of these letters caught my eye with this typeface. I thought they worked well together and felt the serifs made the letters more visually pleasing.

I didn't like this style of gothic lettering as much as the others, especially the capitals. I thought the lower case letter however, where much more appealing and would work better together.