PARALLEL LINES ITALIC BOLD

So here's the completd typeface. I still need to make glyphs but the whole alphabet is done which is nice to see and allows me to see how the letterforms work in conjuction with each other.


On the whole I'm quite happy with it. If I have any areas I feel I need to work on, it's to work on the W and M, as the strokes have gaps between them, the counters? which are too small compared to the other letterforms. This is because the grid I used to create the letterforms in a standardised way, doesn't relate to well with 3 stems parallel to each other, it works well with 2. The only fix I can see is to rethink the grid, make it wider?


I'll work on this later but for now I'm fairly happy. Here it is:


Parallel Lines Italic Bold
Gothic Typeface

Favourite letterforms are probably, R, S, G and X as I think they translate to the logic I was working with and as letterforms on their own are pretty legible but at the same time quite interesting in how I approached them.

FRANKENSTEIN TYPEFACE: COMPLETE ALPHABET

Here is the complete alphabet for the typeface I've been working on. I'm showing light/regular/bold versions of each letterform. I can also go further and produce italic/ultrabold/ultralight etc too. I also want to put it through fontographer and get a fully fledged working typeface out of it. I need to work on the glyphs too.

Here it is so far...

FRANKENSTEIN TYPE: TYPEFACE I'VE BEEN WORKING ON

From the rough letterforms i've been working on with the frankenstein type task, I really liked the aesthetics of the following rough letterform..

^^Using this as a visual template I decided to go about and create my own fully fledged typeface from it. Here are some pictures of the development process...

The idea behind it is a certain set of rules and heavy use of parallel lines, heavy use of straight lines and stems at an angle/gradient. The gradient is always sloping so it's higher on the left and low on the right. I've made a conscious effort to never implement gradients the opposite ways, even when with certain typefaces it would be easy to do so. I did this so the letters flow properly, and again reading the typeface in context, there's a lot of parallel lines, with the slopes, vertical and horizontal lines.

^^example of the slopes, it's always to the left and never towards the right.

The parallel lines look I was trying to go for with the A and S working together.

Bold version

The guide system I was using, absolute lifesaver!

FRANKENSTEIN TYPE: ROUGH LETTERFORMS

Here are some of the letterforms I've come up with, some more aesthetically pleasing and proportionately better than others. I decided to scrap the idea of recreating certain letterforms and simply created whatever letterform appeared in the process, some of these are actually quite decent ideas and help me visualise how the whole alphabet and typeface could possibly look like, which is the overall aim I'm trying to work towards with this exercise.

I'm going to go over with selected letterforms with the pen tool in Illustrator to give a more seamless and finished visual, but these are the initial rough letterforms I've constructed...