Mateusz Witezak: Calligraphy and Hand-drawn type

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Mateusz Witezak is an artist and typographer who hand draws all of his type faces in a calligraphy style. The aspect that I find interesting about his style is the composition and layout. I’m inspired by the way the different styles of typography blend into each other and how the patterns bring them all together around them. I think that this style would go well on a book cover in the style of some of the others that I have researched, as it is eye catching and it would be suitable for the crime thriller/dystopian genres.

Again, continuing from the other styles that I have researched, I really love how the monochrome colour scheme looks on this style of type and it makes it more gripping and olden. Yet, when I see designs like this it reminds me of contemporary styles because of the composition and precision that it has been constructed with. For one of my six letter designs I am going to try this style by using pens and fine-liners, using freehand type and the grid method that we learnt in the workshop to achieve many outcomes.