Photo of a design sheet i have been working on, jotting down some initial ideas for my typeface. I took five of the key words from the questionnaire, then came up with five more words that are associated with or mean the same thing as each word.
I then picked two words at random from the selection of 25 words. I ended up with 'Sea' and 'Movement' . From this i created five variations of the letter 'A' that are influenced by both these words. I then did the exact same thing and chose 'Reptiles' and 'Fall' and created five variations of the letter 'B'. I think this has helped me think about how i can link in traits of Josh's personality to a typeface without making it look cheesy and too obvious.
From this basic starting point, i plan to look further into Josh's personality and Interests before making a final decision on what to influence my typeface from. I want to keep the type pretty subtle, in a way. By this, i mean that i want to create a type that you wouldn't straight away know who it represents, but has a more deeper meaning. Or maybe i want to make just certain aspects of the type such as the curves, shoulder, counter, ascenders, decenders, tails, loops and lobes be influenced by certain traits in Josh's personality.
I will research more to narrow the words or things that i want my type to be influenced by, then i will do more research on existing typefaces, and start to look at which existing font i can use to base my final design from.
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