Day: November 26, 2015

Over the past few days, I’ve been looking at isometric grids as a possibility for my fonts.

This was quite a challenge for me, as Illustrator did not have an isometric function, so I had to make the grid myself. As well as that, the lines would not snap to the grid, so I had to be very cautious with drawing the lines, and they would be off at times.

Here are a few letters I made while messing around with fonts in Illustrator:

Personally I prefer the e and P to all the others, but there is something slightly off putting about all of these letters. I feel it’s probably that they look very basic – like something someone with next to no experience with design would produce.

Overall, I would say that I am not satisfied with this at all; using isometric is a lot more tricky than it looks, and if you jump in blind, it can come up with some truly terrible results. While it was an interesting experience trying out isometrics, I don’t think this will be a style I will be taking on for my final design.

Below are a few fonts I found that inspired me:

This section is for random designs that I did that I did not go into enough detail with to justify dedicating a post to.

Design 1: TACO

This was a random font I created based off some design work I did last year when I was trying out lines with different thicknesses. While I do like it, I felt there was something missing – the design did not really look right and I could not think of a suitable place where it could be used. In the end I decided to scrap the idea and not continue with it.

Design 2: CO

This CO was taken from the last two letters of the TACO. I made the lines thicker and it came out with this interesting look. I’m still not going to use this design, however, I feel that this is still a good design that I may use in the future.

Design 3: FW

This was a design I made that consists entirely of triangles. However, I feel that these designs were not good quality – it is a bit hard to tell what the F is without looking at it properly, which is not great for a font design.