Friday, 1 October 2010

Alphabet soup- initial design development

Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 Sept
The 'loop' link to knit lead me to research loop fonts.  I played around with the word 'knit' and the letter 'k' in Photoshop. as follows




This lead me to experimenting with 'knitting fonts together.  I used the 'paint brush' tool to achieve this.


Sciptina Pro (caps), Gigi (lowercase), 






The Scriptina Pro font is really loopy i tried following the flow of it with wool, as above.

I also played around with 'Knitting' words overlayed over the same font.
I did not know how to type text strings into a path in Photoshop.  I found a website heathrowe.com/textinapath which helped me understand this.  I used the scriptina pro capital font for this.


I also scanned a jumper so I could play about with 'knitted' imagery in Photoshop.





1 comment:

  1. Such a creative and thoughtful approach to the Alphabet Soup brief! Using the 'loop' concept as a bridge between knitting and typography is genuinely clever — and the way you experimented with Scriptina Pro to follow the natural flow of the letterforms shows a real understanding of how font personality can drive a design concept. The combination of Scriptina Pro (caps) with Gigi (lowercase) is a surprisingly elegant pairing too. Font exploration like this is at the heart of good design work. For anyone diving deeper into typeface research and looking for beautifully crafted fonts — especially for non-Latin scripts — Jameel Noori and Urdu Fonts are two excellent resources worth exploring.

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