Fonts design

Reason why I created my first font is because I seriously couldn't come up with something professional in the first place, so I tried to look for some inspiration when I looked around the classroom. A rectangular-like USB was right in my face and that it has urged me to draw something similar to its shape, so I gave it a go, and tried to bring up with something simple and readable for my font design. Also, this font design is closely related to the ancient Egyptian style which the solid materials such as stone, is one of the most usable natural resources being used to construct their sense of living or any forms of communicative representation. Hence, I wanted to create a feeling of olden-fashioned to my design. Other than that, one of the most popular constructions in Egypt are the pyramids. As you can see I simply added the 'apex' to the letter 'A', is to represent the symbol of it.

The second design I came up with the idea of traffic sign in the beginning. But then, I was having this second thought to introduce the most popular sign-the arrow to my design after I thought that the whole sets of traffic signs are too much. Hence after I have decided to make it as my theme, I started to work on the shape of my design. In order to reinforce the theme of this design, the overall design of the font is using arc and straight line because we normally see direction comes along with arc and straight lines. Also, adding some arrows across the letters will make it less dull.

The last but not least, the one that chosen to be my best design so far will be the one I put in my final visual diary. The only thing in my mind at that time was the word 'faded' for some reason. However, as we are not allowed to do any shadings to our hand drawings, I could only represent this idea by designing letters with gradual shrunken shape from the top to bottom. I hope this makes sense to you, what I mean by that is the individual piece is formed with a water drop like shape. Guess what, this design is based on my water bottle. Thanks to my water bottle gives me this great idea! Not to mention that this has finally accepted by Helen who told me that this is the safest one I should do. It's simple, readable, and consistent...