Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Finalising Font Style

First sketches establishing the typeface.
When drawing out a structure, I wanted to establish a clear x-height, ascender and descender platform, this was done by mapping out specifically 'x' 'p' and 'b'. The concept of the design was to match the curved and straight terminals each with their own specific design relating to sacred geometric shapes. With Bodoni, this refers to the ball terminals and bilateral serifs. The curved letters would be characterised with a spiral-like ending or extension relating to that of Fibonacci's, and the circles present in the seed and flower of life representations. The straight serif terminals would adopt a style that resembles the geometric shapes that are produced from the joining of terminals, such that is evident in Metatron's cube, the tetrahedron, Merkabah and Kabbalah (examples shown below). 
These images essentially form the basis and construction of my font for the 'sublime'. 


wild at heart: gokulheartspace: Sri Yantra Art:
MARE design by Carolina Melis Mio Karo: hélicoïdale:




First full alphabet sketch. The 's' and 't' were practiced in variations on the previous sheet to find one most suitable and constant with the font as a whole. 

Visualizing 10 dimensional objects.:
This image is a perfect representation of the ideas behind my font. It step-by-step visually explains the construction of our planet through geometric shapes, which we can evidently see in parts of nature. If we repeat the line (or cube) as presented, we begin to see the presence of all shapes in existence, even a circle. In this way, my font uses the basic triangular construction of these shapes, and the overall spiral created as it's main features. As such, the design shows both the beginning and end of creation in nature, or a summary, if you will, of all elements of 'the sublime'.  

The structural drawn out final typeface.
Filling in the construction of the shape, the get rid of the fundamental structure, and present the overall typeface that incorporates all these elements. It could be linked back to my original analogy of sublime in the original rationale, about the overwhelming qualities of a waterfall. When one looks at the font they see a complete a filled typeface, instead of the intricate details within, as that would be too much to take in. 

Finally, I drew out my word into the font to epitomise and draw a conclusion to the typeface.


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