Initial Ideas – Gab’d

Here are some initial ideas for fonts that I had back at the start of the term (yes, I know I’ve posted stuff before this, but there were the first ideas I had). I called this font Gab’d – as these were the first letters I made. The idea of this one was to keep the letters inside the of a square no matter what. This was a lot harder than I expected, as you’ll see later. For now, below is a logo I made for the font by overlaying the first letters I made.

You can get an idea of the letters from this image, but here are some more closer up:

Gabd3 Gabd4 Gabd5

Looking at these letters, I felt that these were too simple for my tastes, so I decided to add a little more detail to them. I tried adding varying shades to them.

Gabd2 Gabd7 Gabd8

I also created a “q” and added the shading to it. the q was very hard to make, as the rule was it had to stick to the outline of the square as much as possible. Even like this, I am still not satisfied with the shape of it.

The shading did not make the letters look much better in my opinion. In fact, it does not look how I wanted it at all. Rather the darker parts looking shadows with a light shining on the letters from another angle. Although I could have improved it, I was starting to get bored with this idea. As well as that, making the “q” made me wonder how hard it would be to get the “p”s and lower case “g”. I decided that I needed a new idea and decided to leave this one.

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