Personalized Font Project
Application used: Photoshop/Illustrator
Inspiration
While creating this font, I faced a challenge in deciding between a serif and a sans-serif style. I explored various websites and images for inspiration and came across an elegant font called “Glamour.” I chose to use Glamour as a reference for sketching my own font.
I ended up designing two different versions. The second design was more unique but received criticism regarding its legibility, so I decided to go with the first one. I found it particularly challenging to create the lowercase letters. I wanted to avoid simply making smaller versions of the uppercase letters, as I felt that would be too simplistic. As a result, I focused on digitizing only the uppercase letters.
Sketches
When sketching my letters I tried to make them unique while at the same time using the Glamour font for reference and taking some inspiration from that. Going into sketching I decided I wanted to make a font that was more on the elegant, fancy style instead of the round serif style. I thought it would be different if I tried to make a font that had a thick side along with a thin side so I attempted that with the top letters and I was satisfied with the result.
Digitizing
Digitizing the letters wasn't as challenging as I initially thought it would be. When I first started creating the letters, I only knew how to construct them using line segments. I wasn't aware that I could specifically crop certain shapes. As a result, while the letters looked relatively polished, they weren't created in the most efficient way. Additionally, when I attempted to fill in the outlines, the filling would spill beyond the edges of the shape due to how it was made, resulting in an unpolished appearance.
Final Posters
The final posters included an alphabet poster, a numbers poster, and a poster with words that described my font. This was my favorite part of the process because I had the freedom to design the posters however I wanted, as long as they featured the font I created. I could choose any colors for the designs.
