Today I spoke with Molly a bit more to see if there was any more information about her that would help me create a typeface that represents her personality. She told me about here interest in tattoos, especially typographic ones.
I briefly looked into the diferent sales of typographic tattoos. There are 2 main types: Scripts styled lettering, and Blackletter styled lettering. I took inspiration from some of Hydro74's work and the methods used to create Blackletter letterforms
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| Hydro74's Warlock font |
The sketches below were a few ideas I was contemplating using. Feedback shows that the first letter design was the most popular style that suited Molly. I believe the Blackletter and tattoo style is quite heavy and gothic, which doesn't suit Molly's personality, although I feel although there are a few elements of it in the first design.
To create a blackletter, wide nib styled letter I drew the letter form with two pencils celotaped together and filled the space in between them with a sharpie. I like this style as the contrast of thick and thin line stroke ads quite an animate feel to the letters. This reflects Molly's personality quite well as she is quite confident and talkative.
One of the things that Molly brought up in the "getting to know each other quiz" was that she loves the seaside. I wanted to experiment with some letters to see if I could make them resemble a wave, although it isn't visually pleasing at all. I also progressed the more popular curvy design to see how the style would be consistent throughout the alphabet.
Below is a more obvious design idea but I thought it was worth experimenting. Molly really likes dogs, so I traced gill sans and gave it a fluffy look to resemble a dog. I'm not so fond of this concept as it is too obvious and it doesn't reflect her personality enough.
I also briefly looked into how I could use molly's handwriting in this project. I scanned her handwriting in and tidied it up and manipulated it slightly. The curvy letterforms look quite innocent and friendly which represents Molly's personality quite well, although the thin stroke looked quite childish, like comic sans. I chose to add a contrast in stroke width to see how it looked. Feedback showed that people preferred this and that it popped out more, expressing the fact that she is an extravert. The serifs on the letterforms were purely for experimentation and did not give off any wanted characteristics.
