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.
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