After scanning in my sketches of my typeface, I then set about digitalising them. To do this I selected one letterform at a time, in upper and lower case, and opened it in Adobe Illustrator. I then changed the images opacity down to 30% and locked it in place.
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| I then placed guides around each letterform, as you can see here, the guides are the blue lines. This helped me to ensure the stems of each letterform are straight, and the baseline and serifs were also straight, along with many other aspect of each letterform, so everything is correctly aligned. |
I then went over the image using the pen tool on Illustrator, initially with no fill, only so I could clearly see the outline of the letterform I was producing, without anything getting in the way. I adjusted my letterform outline using the direct selection tool, so that all my curves were smooth and the rounded ends of the serifs weren't jagged.
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| This is my finished alphabet, minus the glyphs, which I have just placed on a single page on Illustrator so I can get them all on one file. Now that I can all my letterforms together I realise that they do appear a bit wonky and higgledy piggledy, but I think this adds a friendly handwritten touch. |
I produced the glyphs in exactly the same way as the rest of my letterforms, only for the full stop I copied the tittle from the question and exclamation mark, and used that as my full stop. Similarly for the comma I used the full stop, only added a little extra bit onto it, getting the shape from Garamond's comma. I then used the full stop and comma to make a colon and a semi colon.
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| Using the comma I could also of produced speech marks and an apostrophe as well very easily. |
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