Letterforms

Objective: Choose a word to display letters in a way that match content and form. This project included printing letters by hand and creating compositions that matched what the word said and how the letters looked.

Working with letterforms by printing by hand was challenging, to say the least. It is a lot harder to line them up physically with ink and paper than just using a font online. There is a lot more to the process of creating a font or different typographic forms of the same word. Letterforms can take on several meanings, and how you display them could make all the difference in the audience interpreting them the way you did.

If I was working with these letters again, I would take more time to clear the noise around them using wood tools and paper. I would like to practice more with lining them up, getting even kerning, and accurately getting them on the baseline. I would also like to play around more with the variations of letters, using different drop shadows, and media with the letters.

Letters only, printed “straight”

Letters + typographic variations

Letters + modifications

One more of your choosing