Sacred Geometry and The Sublime

I decided to look into the construction of Metatron's cube and the Fibonacci spiral, and seeing constant shapes and angles that are perpetuated throughout. I wanted to apply these constants to my font, elaborating on concepts of the sublime as bigger than humanity, and the overwhelming perfection of nature and creation. 

I began to play around on Illustrator, adding letters from my word, and playing around with what shapes can be incorporated and where. Below show some stages of experimentation.  

 

Looking at possible positioning and plausible layout and incorporation of ideas. 

 

Looking at flare and stylistic approaches that present the waves and patterns present in nature and traditional style fonts:

 

Applying different styles on each letter to compare and contrast the possible styles. All acknowledge the triangular point and circular curve which is the basis of all sacred geometry - representing completeness of infinity and three points within a circle, sort of depicted in a populist way through the Harry Potter symbol of the deathly hallows.  

This method didn't prove too effective and I found in order to get the real freedom to explore the shapes, hand drawings would be easier and give better freedom. Using layout paper I attempted to use the printouts of the geometric shapes as grids for the letters themselves. 

Using the lowercase Bodoni 'a', I began to experiment by hand with how to incorporate these relevant shapes in the font in a way that makes it look somewhat divine, and is plausible for a constant and useable display font. Here I explores using the grid of circles to create the letter itself, or using the flower as decoration, or looking into extended swashes, in order to produce a viable style. I first wanted to try drawing the word within the grid of the geometric shapes, tracing through layout paper, however I don't feel the outcome represents the idea as well as it could as it is not grand enough.

I found that in order to move on I need to look to the constant patterns shown throughout, apply them and develop a typeface from there.