Studio Brief 2 - Typeface part 9 (vector typeface development)

Taking my ideas into Illustrator proved difficult at first. Some ideas that worked well on paper did not translate into vector illustration as beautifully. This led to me being frustrated. 

For example this idea of using repetitive lines to fill the counter of a capital D looked scruffy and too linear when I took it into illustrator. I had to abandon the idea and go down another route.

Also an issue for me was keeping my typeface consistent across all 26 letters. Using a grid system helped but the diagonal stems always seemed different to the vertical stems of other letters (see
below). I used a similar idea to develop my final typeface from but had to differentiate my designs across letters. Here I made the width of my capital A thinner, in keeping with type I had seen during my research, but it led to the glyph looking wonky and inconsistent to the other letterforms.

I decided that the repetitive stroke worked well in letters with a vertical stem, but did not look right in curved glyphs, such as 'C' and 'G'. I chose to go down a different route, using a different design for these curved letters. However one feature I thought worked well was adjusting the bowls of the letterforms into circular shapes - very inkeeping of the styles of the Art Deco era. I took these develeopmental decisions into the creation of my final typefaces.