letter press & font

 In order to save both time, paper and ink, I thought it would be a good idea to create a font using letter press, to add that authentic feel to the protest signs/art without having to each one individually because that's simply not a viable option for this project. I did the entire alphabet out of the font I have been using throughout the project, only using the caps because of what it's for (doesn't really need lower case and it's time consuming process!) and the punctuation. I just laid out the blocks to fit an A3 piece of recycled paper from the art shop (and did half and half for the the handmade paper) and then just played around with the ink and different textures;








It worked pretty well but due to the consistency of the ink I used (it was a bit gluey as it had started to dry) it just didn't really dry so I had to take photos in the light box. Here are a few of those;





Not overly ideal but with a bit of photoshop magic they were perfectly fine - just not as high res, which I solved in Illustrator.




The photoshop edits ^

I just ran an image trace on the type in illustrator but I didn't document the process...



Using Calligraphr, I digitally composed the sheet and out it through the website and I had a font!

Font in use;
This is a mix of a few things but an example of how the font will be used. All in all, I think it works really well! 



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