Body Text

And last but not least....

I have created this poster to illustrate my font designs functionalities as a body text.

Works pretty well don't you think?

and it will be named......Chrissy's Hand

And finally....
I will name my alphabet design.....Chrissy's Hand

The following poster illustrates my font design in practice.
I have used the type in a heading and sub-heading format to display both its functionalities.

I also used the selected colours to represent Chrissy's Hand as they give a feeling of fun, playfulness and everything that encompasses my personality.

My Finalised Alphabet Design

This is my finalised alphabet design!

I am really happy with the end result. The design of the type is exactly what I had in mind.
Each letter compliments and relates to eachother beautifully, while still being fun and decorative.
It also meets my initial objective of portraying myself through my final design by the use of my own handwriting.

Overall, I am pleased with my alphabet design, however, I believe it could be more effective providing that my Illustrator skills were of a higher standard.

Me in the process

These photo's illustrate the process I went through in completing Step 1 and 2 of my alphabet design.

Oval Theme

As shown here, I have incorporated an oval into each of my letters and used it as a base drawing to ensure all of my letters are consistent with eachother.
Using this technique proved to be quite helpful and worked for most letters, however I came across some difficulty in letters such as, F, T, M, N, W, Z and a few others. These particular letters took a few goes. They required special attention to ensure they related to the look and feel of the rest of the font family.

Step 2 - Colour-in

The next step was to colour-in my sketches to define them with a thick black marker in preparation for scanning. Once scanned, the letters will be transferred to Illustrator and re-traced.

Step 1 - Sketching my Ideas

To begin designing my own alphabet, I sat down and did some sketching. At this stage I didn't really know how I wanted my type to look, all I knew was I wanted to keep it quite original, organic and incorporate a flick or a twirl into it. I wanted to portray myself and personality through my design and keep it quite simple and timeless.

With all of this in mind I got straight to work, looking at similar fonts and the way each letter relates to one another. To keep it original I used my own handwriting manipulating it slightly and adding a delicate flick to each design.

The photo's featured, illustrate the first step in the design of my typeface.

My Illuminated Manuscript Designs

For another homework task we were asked to create our own versions of an Illuminated Manuscript Initial.
The featured illustrations are my designs.

I think the butterfly design is more effective then the flowers; it is unified and holds a strong balance while still being soft and easy on the eye.

Overall, I really enjoyed this exercise. I was able to learn a lot about Illuminated Manuscripts and also have the chance to portray my own ideas through a personal design.

Illuminated Manuscript Initials

These are interesting examples of Illuminated Manuscript Initials.

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders (marginalia) and miniature illustrations.

Tracing

For Homework we were asked to trace our name in Trajan Lettering. This was helpful as it really allowed me get a feel of the style and how each letter relates to one another.

I really like this style of typography!

Trajan Lettering

This task was completed in class and for homework.

Trajan is an old style serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column from which the typeface takes its name. Since lower case forms were not in use in Roman times, Trajan is an all-capitals typeface. Instead, small caps are commonly used, and a more complete set of glyphs contained in Trajan Pro (a 2001 update of the original typeface) includes a lower case of small caps.

Inspirational Fonts

To start off my Systems of Communication Assignment, I decided to have a look at other types of typography, located on dafont.com

I really like these fonts! They are fun but also quite delicate.

I really like the decorative flicks and twirls carried out through each letter.

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