Fonts That Fit
September 23, 2022
FONTS THAT FIT
Based on a quiz that we all took....I am Helvetica!
I was both surprised and not so by this answer. While the definition does match my personality, I feel like the quiz left out questions for the possibility of DRAMA. Not in the manner of a DRAMA QUEEN but more in the context of FLAIR, in the vein of Moira from Schitt's Creek. My very own daughter defined me as "eclectic" LOL!
I, personally, love any one of these to personify me:
As long as I have loved words and letters it has never occurred to me that one had to choose a typeface to fit the occasion, as it were. I naively thought that it just happened, that the typefaces that were used were used specifically for those instances without a lot of thought going into it, it just was. Well, was I mistaken! In another assignment, we were to choose three typefaces that spoke to us, trace them as best we could, and take in the finished product. Here I have shown 3 completely different typefaces that spoke to me, a Serif, a Sans Serif, and a Script. It was not easy tracing them even on a lightbox so imagine having to actually create each letter uniformly, it definitely was not an easy task!
I've also posted here a sketch that I depicted what I imagine Scopophobia (the phobia of being watched) would feel like. Just to be clear, it is NOT MY phobia, (thankfully, I don't think I have a phobia). It is a phobia that I chose to interpret through art, writing SCOPOPHOBIA in the center of my sketch, I played around with the letters, and without really realizing it, I was creating a font, a typeface.
Upon seeing this sketch posted here, I can see so many things that I would change including the KERNING (the space between two letters) as we can plainly see, the letters are most certainly NOT spaced evenly! It is also very difficult to see the eyeball within the letters "O" to punctuate more intensely punctuate the anxiety. I'm not sure if my final piece was meant to evoke a creepiness or a light that shines through all of us to have the strength to OVERCOME our individual phobias whatever they may be.
I truly underestimated the tireless work of others that have come before me and I look forward to throwing myself wholeheartedly into any and ALL of the projects yet to come!
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