Journal Assignment #5: Project 4 research

I'm thinking I want to design a typeface not necessarily to put in my portfolio as a project, but to present my projects in my portfolio. I usually tend to gravitate towards slab serifs when it comes to needing a display face so it's probably a good idea not design just another slab serif. I found some really nice display and script fonts and hopefully that's a direction I can follow in.

 

Rue Display is particularly nice. I enjoy the arched characteristics of the font, it gives it personality and its fun.

Candy Script is another fun one. I really like the swashes. They are quirky and have a big personality. I think it would be fun and challenging to do something like this.

Here's a good in-between of a script and a slab serif. I wanted to put it in here just as another option of where I can go with this. 

Beppo is really big and bubbly (in personality). It definitely caught my attention right away. I love the thickness of the letters yet the contrasted thinness of the script that connects them. Also, that little indent they played with on the top of the letters is definitely something different. I want my typeface to have a defining feature like that.

This picture below is just some inspiration when I'm designing... and a reminder to sketch first, digitalize later.

Darby display has really nice slanted/rounded serifs that caught my attention. I also am a fan of the e.

Miss Kitty Delux is a little girly for me but I thought the designer had something good going on when she was designing this. The uppercase A is particularly nice and I love the balls at the ends of some of the letters. I also enjoy the fact that everything is capitalized except for the i.

 

I added BD Hitbit into my research just because I really lot the way they made all the counters and negative space of the letters.

Gaisma is very organic looking and I enjoy that. I would probably make my face a little bolder than this one but I like its simplicity and its personality.

 

Pepita script is particularly nice. I love the different swashes you can turn on; the t is especially beautiful. I love its classic advertising look that was redefined in a modern way.