During the workshop we learnt how to hand draw our own fonts and started doing this by copying an already existing font on the computer. I found this incredibly difficult and my hand drawn effort did not look anything like the original, in my opinion.

From there I then attempted to start some rough designs for my own font. I was struggling for ideas so I decided to write out my name in a similar kind of font to the one I had chosen above, although the ‘s’ became sans serif. I don’t think this design was terrible but was definitely not something that I wanted to pursue.

I then looked at trying to design a more calligraphy/handwritten style font.

I preferred this design to the previous one as I felt it had more style than the other and was more interesting to look at. Also, all the letters followed the same ideas, whereas in the one above some letters were serif while others were sans serif. I liked the idea of using ways of writing letter that are not commonly used, for example the ‘s’ above, rather than the conventional way of writing it, and I think that this may be something that I use for my final design.

Again, I attempted a handwritten, cursive style font (below). I am quite proud of this design, although I think that is nothing special, as again all the letters flow together.

The last design that I created using this method used fairly unconventional letter shapes, slightly inspired by my own handwriting.

This is my favourite design out the ones above. I like the idea of filling in the open spaces inside letters, for example colouring in the ‘g’ and the ‘d’ completely. I particularly liked the ‘g’ and the shape that it makes and think that this may be something that I will try to replicate in any further designs. I also liked how the unusual way of writing the ‘e’ made the font look and as said above, I think that the uncommon way writing certain letters is something that I will look into.