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November 8, 2017

Font Design

Overall theme: disaster, menacing, caution, trip gone wrong

For font design inspirations, I began by searching for images related to some of the key words from my previous blog post.

Disney's Expedition Everest:
Image result for expedition everest sign
Source: http://www.wdwlive.com/picture/animal-kingdom/asia/expedition-everest-2085-9.html

Image result for expedition everest sign
Source: http://www.onlywdworld.com/2012/02/disney-world-rides-expedition-everest.html

Snow/cold/glacier fonts:
Image result for glacier font
Source: http://www.picturetopeople.org/text_generator/others/ice/frozen-text-logo-generator.html

Image result for snow font
Source: http://www.fontspace.com/aarrgghh/ice-and-snow

Nepali written language:

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_language#/media/File:Nepali_Language.gif



Conclusions/Further Ideas:

  • Serif font with letters that come to points at the end to give them a glacial quality
  • Letters should be curved, not block letters
  • "Escape" and "Yeti Expedition" should have more spacing between letters than the words "from the"
  • Based off Nepali written language, almost like calligraphy, with thicker down strokes and thinner upwards and curved strokes
  • Final line could have more dripping icicles off of the letters
Playing Around with Fonts



Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 12, 2017 at 7:51 AM

    You did a great job of looking through a variety of thematically related fonts and picking out key, distinct features from each to incorporate into your own. I'm particularly curious how you will try to incorporate the calligraphy-like details. I also appreciate how you started thinking very specifically about the final layout your font will be used in before you even started drawing it.

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