Endlich ein Richtung...

I'm starting to feel like I've got a direction now. It's taken considerably more effort to decide on a style than I thought it might, but maybe I am too uptight about it. I guess when I started I thought perhaps I could just scrawl out a page of characters and whip it into a font, but after immersing myself in the world of type designers I might have taken on some of their obsessiveness. I'm leaning towards a humanistic interpretation of the 'Times' typeface.

 I have always loved the way it looks and I think to bring it off of it's pedestal and into my world would be fantastic. I'll be making sketches of each letter and then vectorizing the sketches, so the end result will be a Times font which retains the messiness and warmness of the hand-drawn look. I'll avoid tracing as I really want there to be a human signature in the final font. More to come.

Character study

Some sketches

I took some pictures of my sketchbook for this project. I've been playing around with Quite a variety of styles, but I'm forming some ideas of where I want to go with my font.

Karen Cheng's 'Designing Type'

So I was able to order this fantastic book from europe on ebay for about ten bucks, avoiding the steep textbook price tage of 150 here in the states. Maybe I should get all my textbooks from the UK? Anyway, it came today and it's awesome, chock full of practical design advice and illustrations. Should be a great resource as I proceed with this project.

I've been making some sketches in a little book i've dedicated to type stuff, I'll upload a few of my favorites as I get the time.