Carrying on from one of the initial tutorials I did, with creating type from glyphs, I've decided to try this again with different messages and using a different font to see if the variety of glyph choices change.
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I've tried creating a longer message here with a different font, but I don't think it looks as good as the first example I made. I am worried about these looking too childish; I want the focus to be on what I have learnt about typography.
Here I've added a bit of colour but this quote still isn't looking right to me!
Here I have simplified the font to see how this looks but I'm just not happy with the way this message is looking so think I'll try something else.
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Here I've tried a totally different style of font to see if this works better, but after doing this I'm thinking of going back to Arial as I think it works better.
I've been playing about with colour and I quite like this colour scheme. I need to eventually find a colour scheme that will be appealing to both males and females. The text still looks quite simple though, so I definitely need to add some other element to it.
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I've decided to go back to the original quote I wrote, using the font Arial. It looks so simple now, so I decided to add in some of the things I have learnt in other tutorials to it. I have added all these things that I have learnt together to create a piece of type I feel really happy with.
So I've started off by creating the wording using only glyphs, and then I've been applying what I've learnt about the rules of typography, such as how the sizes of each letter interact to create a credible font. I've then joined up and added extra decorative details to the typeface, as I did in a previous tutorial. Then I've added colour and shadows and highlights to make this font look like it is a ribbon, as I also did in a tutorial.
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And this is what the culmination of those tutorials looks like. The style is also inspired by some of the examples of work I have been looking at on my design context blog, such as Jessica Hische and David Carson.
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Here are some screenshots of the progress. I've created a grid to help me edit the position and size of the letters, as it is important this is a credible typeface.
I've then started to join up parts of the letterforms, so each word's letters are interlinked in a few ways. I want the flow of the letters to be smooth.
Here is what the quote looked like before I added the shadows:
I've then taken the quote over to Photo shop to add the shadows and subtle highlights.
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I've done this same process for the other quotes/rules I thought of, using Arial for all. Its quite a fun process but takes ages. I want to use different glyphs in the different quotes so they don't all look the same, as I've noticed some letters are used way more often that others.
Showing the progress:
Before I altered the kerning of each word, this is what they look like:
After I altered the kerning, but before I joined the letters up:
There were a few mistakes and things I had to change along the way, as I wanted the words to be easy to read. I also wanted the kerning to be the same for each word, as all the quotes should work together. Here is an example of the word 'Thinking' where it just didn't look right how I had it before.
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Here is another example of something that just didn't look right. While I want the letters to join up and for it to look quite different, I still want it to make sense.
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