In the
SHADOWS
Typography Emily Gregor
My
initial thought on this project was confusion borderline mortified due to the skirt I chose to wear to class. Despite my inhibitions about attempting to spell my name in front of a lot of people I don’t know at alll didn’t sound like my idea of fun, but I went with it and ended up enjoying it quite a lot. We ended up getting to know each other more as a group as well.
I struggled with creating an “L” that wasn’t boring so later I ended up playing with the design to make it a little more interesting later. The “Y” I think I would’ve had more fun with if I hadn’t had worn a skirt that day.
To figure out what size to make my letters I adhered two pieces of sketch paper together to create the size the final project would end up being.
Next for my first draft I used my handy ruler to create spacing for each of the letters accountingfor kerning and tracking.
I used vellum (Thanks Hobby Lobby) to create initial sketches of my letters. My favorite letter turned out to be the “M� which after a couple of renditions, I ended up taking inspiration from to add to the other letters so they were uniform but still maintained a few human characteristics.
Why lowercase? I chose lowercase as opposed to all uppercase for a few reasons. First, there is another Emily in the class who chose to do all uppercase letters. Second, I wanted mine to maintain a sense of humanity and I felt a capital letter could be seen as too harsh. Finally, I just wanted to play with the shape of the “E” because I feel like whenever one has to spell as “E” with the body it ends up looking pretty similar, with three bars and a straight line.
Early renditions of the “E” and the M”
The Creation The First Rendition
The transition from the first rendition (seen here on the left) to the second rendition (pictured above)
Here you can see how my design progressed all the way to my final rendition I presented in class Wednesday September 3rd.
My drawing ended up being too large when I got to scanning it so I had to do two separate scans and then merge them together using Photoshop. I also selected the individual layers and applied a mask so the whites would match.
My final scan before I created my anatomy chart
The Inspiration
Before starting to create my anatomy chart, I placed the tiff file into InDesign
For my baseline and my x-height lines, I decided against solid lines to switch up my design
For my font, I stuck to Helvetica because the video we watched in class really inspired me to use it more in my designs
To indicate the different parts, I decided to use a lot of color and elipses to focus in tighter than a line.
ascender height
descender
eye
x-height
stem
o
sh
r
e uld
baseline
The Result
descender height tail