The inspiration for this typography was the calligraphy style of Mateusz Witezak. I wanted to take that style and flow of his work and use it in a way that could fill a book cover. From my research I liked books that filled the cover fully with typography because this made it look interesting and also no images/illustrations distracted the type. I am happy with this outcome because the extra outlines that I included allows the curves to be emphasised and it boosts the overall aesthetic of the type. I think this style is also suitable for the book, and by having different sizes of font instead of keeping to the grid method I could experiment with layout and composition.
As The Great Gatsby is traditionally an old book and has a 1920’s style font because of the genre and subject, I wanted to have a go at this with the lines within the font- also being inspired by Laura Meseguer. When I started doing this with the grid format I realised that the type was more conformist and didn’t look as natural as some of the fonts for that genre looked like. But with this style and harsh corners the font has an edge of a modernist approach, while keeping the traditional elements of the typography. I am happy with this outcome, and I feel that it is suitable for the book.
This idea was a quick experiment I had a go at mixing different typographies in one project, just as some of the other typographers do. I thought it was suitable for the word ‘wind’ to be in the free style rather than the more computer generated, stiff font. I think that this works well in this instance, and with the formalist style of the other typography they mix well. I think that I could try this technique out more to discover how it can work with other serifs/sans serifs, and whether it can be used on products.
As Jane Eyre, again, is a traditional novel I took this style and used the natural flowing lines to form the basis of the typography. For the Loop on the J, this allowed me to blend the next word underneath, creating a flow between the words. Also because they’re both the same length I think that this makes the overall appearance much more appealing. I liked experimenting with this one because I didn’t use the grid method which made a more of a calligraphy style typography.
In addition to the to the Gone with the wind style type, I had another go with a simplistic font. I felt like the layout and composition was important for this one because it also reminds me that it’s on a label or created for a postcard. I used the mix of sans-serifs and a serif to see how this worked, and surprisingly I like the outcome because they work well beside each other and the serif font reminds me of almost a type writer font. I did use the grid method to draw this, which I think helped with the overall appearance and uniformity.
