Final Project: Typeface Representing Ourselves

Rationale:

The typeface that I designed is named Cee. At the start of this project I had already decided to do a serif typeface. When looking at typefaces, I have always had a preference for those that are similar to actual handwriting, especially cursive. These are types such as Lucida Calligraphy, French Script and others. After researching different type designers and different typefaces, I decided to go with a typeface that resembled handwriting. Not wanting this typeface to be like other typefaces resembling handwriting I decided to add something that would help distinguish it. This was the extra thickness of the serifs and for the characters that seemed appropriate to have them as well as other sections of different characters. The typeface was also partly inspired by a design style art nouveau. The design style influenced and inspired some of the curves within the font. Although not all characters within the typeface had curves, they were in some aspects of their design still tied in with the other fonts.

The overall task of creating a font or typeface itself sounded at first harder than it actually was. Once creating basic shapes and characters it was easy to duplicate certain features of those characters to help create the rest of the typeface. The skill or ability to create a typeface was something that was fun to learn as well as practical. This is something that would be able to help in the future with other projects as well as something enjoyable to do. The final finished typeface was something that I was quite proud of in the time that I had to complete it. Although there are some aspects of certain characters that seem off to me for some odd reason I was happy with what was achieved. This font is something that represents the design side of me, the side that is inspired by art nouveau and is has more of a soft, flowing and natural style rather than a hard and intense style.