Now I have decided which idea I want to take forward from my sketches, I have begun digitising my ideas.
The first step I took was rounding the serifs on the original Clarendon font by pulling in the anchor points, which immediately gave a softer effect (see fig1 below).
I wasn’t happy with this though, as whilst the serifs were rounded, the rest of the letter appeared too uniform and thin. I attempted to use the anchor points to adjust the width and thickness of the strokes, but I found this difficult to control. Moving the handlebars around to create curves proved
problematic as it distorted the overall shape and created a ‘lumpy’ effect (see fig1 below).
To combat this, I then took a different approach and used the ‘offset path’ took to thicken the letters. I experimented with different levels of offset, adjusting the numbers to see how it effected the type. This created an interesting effect but made the letters quite illegible, which was not ideal for a display font to be used in a variety of settings. By filling the original outline in with white, the word was instantly made more legible and readable. Whilst this was a positive, I wasn’t too keen on the outline effect this had, and I still felt like this wasn’t quite ‘plump’ enough as I wanted (see fig2 & fig3 below).
I tried the offset path tool with the full alphabet, and I did think this worked better as I used only a very slight offset. This was better for legibility but I felt the glyphs were too similar to the original Clarendon typeface (see fig4 below).
I decided to use a baby pink colour whilst experimenting with my typeface as I felt it linked in with how I would like my type to be presented on my specimen at the end of the project.
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