Reconstructing the Font

As I mentioned in the previous blog, Rebecca advised my that my current font does not work. So, as I said, I went home and did some work on it. After asking my family to give my their advice as an audience, I decided that I might just be best getting a whole new font. I went onto a website called 

dafont.com and found a font that I liked and I think went with my genre called ‘Dutch and Harley.’ This font came with Glyphs that I could use to add some design to it, and it  suited the floral graphics that I wanted to use in my digipack. So I downloaded it.

This what the font looked like when I typed Alex into the website to try out the font:

It doesn’t have a capital A.

I constructed the font in InDesign because I was writing in the font of my advertisement anyway. After I wrote out the name on my advertisement, I went onto Type-Glyphs, to get the designs that came with it, because otherwise the font didn’t look nice, or captivate the theme of my digipack.

     I basically had to be creative and try to discover what will work and what wouldn’t work. With what designs the font gave me I was able to come up with this:

But it wasn’t enough. This is where my old font came in handy. I was able to use some of the floral drawings off the font and add them into my new font. To do this I just selected what I wanted to use in Illustrator, then simply copied and pasted it into InDesign.

This is how it looked in the end.

I was happy with this because I still enable for the floral idea I was heading for, and it stood out very well from afar-which is what Rebecca said my other font lacked. Also my old font wasn’t a complete waste of time. I now just need to some this to a teacher and see if I have their approval.