Designs

This design above is a developed type where I have edited each individual character making specific parts of these thinner and sharper than the Caslon type which I started on. This type is sleek and subtle, it represents shy as the thin parts or subtle lines are held back such like a shy person feels in everyday life. I have left thick strokes on the type to represent the overshadowing that a shy person faces through there personality trait, it shadows over them. I continued with creating a typeface only of lowercase letters to make them small and quiet unlike an uppercase which would be seen as loud. I have made sure this type is flowing and works as a set and that similar letters share the same characteristics, keeping to my ideas of subtlety and thin.

Having looked at a few different styles in my hand rendered development work, and getting some positive feedback in the interim crit I decided to look further into the idea of a hidden style type, with a type hidden behind another or aspects of one type hidden behind itself. The type on the left is my first type at the top of the post hidden behind Caslon type, this was a start off to get a feel of what it would look like, and I like the effect it makes it have a feel of a hiding type behind the a main focus, with the type that is hidden I have changed the transparency of to 50%. On the right I have done the exact same yet instead of having Caslon as the main type I have used the type I made and behind that is the same type again in 50% transparency. 

I found out through feedback that this type on the right is quite uneasy to look at its obscure in a way and I feel that does fit into my adjective as a shy person would feel uneasy in certain situations. This idea would would well as a display type in context of a movie poster or book cover, I need to test the legibility out more if I want to develop this idea further.

I attempted to make a simple typeface specimen to see how my design would look in this context, I want to look more into type specimen design especially the Muller-Brockman grid system style which I researched and experimented with, I want to put this type into a Brockman style grid system because the it makes the work look neater and gives it a stylish feel.