Evaulation:
I found using Illustrator within this project fairly straight forward due to my background of using the software previously. However, I still found the workshops useful as not only did I ensure I was capable of using all the tools effectively, but I also learnt new methods and shortcuts to do things.
From my ten letter forms created for Studio Brief 1, I chose the one that I felt would create the most interesting and unique typeface. I wasn't too concerned about legibility at the start as I was concentration more on creating letter forms that, out of context, may be misread or misunderstood. I think that this makes a typeface much more interesting, as though they are symbols of a foreign language until put into context with other letters etc.
To actually create my typeface was fairly simple but I still encountered a few problems along the way, the main one being alignment and scale. Due to the nature of my typeface, in which I have cut the letters in half horizontally before 'folding them in on themselves', each letter was a completely different height and width. The only way in which this could be solved would be to manually edit each letter form, adjusting it to a certain scale. However, this would alter the weight of the strokes within the letter forms, making them all different thicknesses and so I decided to leave them different sizes. This problem also caused a problem with aligning the letter forms, as due to the different sizes, they would often appear out of line or sloped slightly. Something else I found was that some letter forms needed a slight different approach as when the same method was applied to them, they seemed out of place when but in conjunction with the rest of the typeface.
However, overall I feel that my typeface works very effectively and fulfills the brief completely. The thing I like most about my type is that when viewed from different angles, or each letter individually, they can often be misinterpreted and seen as abstract forms.
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