ALPHABET SOUP// Eve Typeface

Here is the final hand drawn version of Eve's typeface. It was drawn in pencil on tracing paper and then coloured in permanent black ink.

The is the full typeface with 26  letters and 6 glyphs. To transfer the typeface from computer to page I traced it from several A3 sheets. I also made small changes and neatened many of the letters by softening curves and ironing out bumps and nooks created in illustrator. I would say that the typeface works well as a whole however there are a few letters and a glyph which stand out from the rest. The 'S' for example is different for example as it is the only letter to be split into two halves. Also the Percentage glyph looks more like the rest of the typeface did earlier in the process. This is because it was exceptionally difficult to follow the same exact process when editing this glyph without rendering it unreadable.

I think 'W' and 'X' are two of my favourite letters in this typeface. I especially like how they do not follow any defined baseline under conventional standards but still work well as readable letters. I also like how the serifs have become inward facing and are a recurring theme throughout the typeface still, even with all the massive changes.

Some letters like this 'A' have taken on quite a futuristic look, almost looking like the something from a Blade Runner poster. These breaks in the letters were at first a real problem for me but I think they still work as letters in a post-modernist typeface.

One think I like about this typeface is that each individual character is completely unique, for example, the 'M' is not just a 'W' turned upside down. No part from one letter was borrowed from another. Despite this, as seen in this photo, the typeface retains common styles. The stem for both 'M' and 'N' are the same, but this is due to using the same process formula to create each letter instead of copying parts from each one.