suburban sketches: Assignment 4

I started this project by messing around with font ideas in my sketchbook

Starting with the idea of typewriter font

and then just trying random ideas wherever they took me

I'm thinking that the font at the bottom of the above page is the one I'll run with but more of that later.

These websites gave me some good information for my article

https://ooomf.com/blog/the-science-behind-fonts-and-how-they-make-you-feel/
http://www.wiseinkblog.com/design/8-fonts-to-never-ever-ever-use-in-your-book/
http://ilovetypography.com/2008/03/27/extreme-type-terminology-part-2/

The brief is a bit random. I have no problem with linking what makes a typeface interesting and how it is constructed but how to include question marks in a way that flows within the article? I decided to use them as an example and maybe put them in a box of their own.

My research didn't come up with much specifically about question marks although I like the idea that they developed from the latin quaestio which was abbreviated to qo and then;

I decided to focus on the differences in question marks in different typefaces as an example of how text can vary and found a selection of different styles

I tried layering them to show the differences better

Fun but not very clear or informative

"The question mark can also be quite difficult to make, because it requires you to balance an open curve over the dot below". This website has a lot of detail about creating new designs, the quote (and some of the only information I could find about question mark design) was about halfway down.
I went back to my sketchbook

Which lead me to;

I'm worried that my font won't work large size on a magazine cover

I tried to make it bigger then fiddled with it on the computer

It needs a background. I though about printing blocks but I don't have any and it seems to be cheating to steal someone else's so I cut lots of letters out of the paper

I used the negative feature to get this

and tried playing with distortion

Don't like this its too busy so I went back to my sketchbook

I quite like the idea of doing some simple drawings of printing blocks. There is an artist who does flowing line drawings very successfully but I can't find who they are at the moment or I would credit them. Alternatively I took some photos of my keyboard which is a bit disgusting until I hid it by trying different effects,

I like this one best

with the font over the top you get

Or better still

There is plenty of room to add this months features. I would like to do something more interesting with the title but if it is to stand out in a magazine rack it needs to be at the top.

For my font I drew it out on an A3 sheet of paper in pencil at 2 different sizes