Typefaces

I love typography, it was one the most evocative aspects of the design when I started my interest in it. Even before I was interested in design I have different fonts of handwriting and I was always (and still am) twisting and changing the shapes of the letters that I wrote. I was writing lists with different "fonts" for headers, and body copy.

But one of the interesting concept of typography, when you are designing with type you have another person's work within your design, the font design that they created has now become a part of your work, and will live on. I used to tell a then-boyfriend of mine that I want to design the next helvetica, and he (a non-designer) then forward called me the font nerd. He couldn't understand why I would want to design a font, although it is used all over the world, no-one knows who designed it, and you seem to be a non-entity once the font gets release to designers. But that is the key, your font lives on as your own, it's not important if people know who created it, because you are in the font, and every time your font is used, you are there on the page.

Hand-Made Font

Original typefaces were designed to match the way letters looked when they were written by hand. We currently have billions of handwriting fonts that mimic the same hand-written effect, but legibility on such fonts is low, and formal type seems to do something different for the designed page. So, I am beginning an attempt to use my own handwriting style as a basis for building a formal font. Taking note of the directions of the strokes, stroke weight, and directions of the angles, will hopefully allow me to make a unique font that has a more personal feel but still hold up as a formal typeface. We'll see how it turns out in the end, but here are my first attempts.