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Process: Rough Drafts
During the early planning stages, I drew up multiple thumbnail sketches on tracing paper, utilizing different font styles, sizes, letters, and weights. These sketches were made by tracing over font print outs. “Cutting off� parts of the letter by aligning them to pre-drawn squares allowed me to see the different shapes that could be created; even more so when the letters were combined together. After the hand drawn thumbnail sketches, we began creating drafts in Adobe Illustrator. These digital drafts allowed us to get a better idea of how our final designs should look like.
The images to the left are thumbnail sketches for this project. The left-most photo consists of small, 1-inch squares, each filled with a single letter of a font. The right-most photo was the second version of the thumbnails; these squares were larger so we could get a better idea of how size effects the apperance of the letters in different typefaces.
After doing a number of thumbnail sketches,
we moved to digital thumbnails. The three
images to the right are my digital thumbnails, which were created in Adobe Illustrator. I tried
three different fonts when desiging these thumbnails: Centaur, Bodoni, and Friz Quatra.
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