Typeface Development

Typeface Development

After reviewing my typeface sourced from the bank note, I thought it would be wise to keep my options open. I thought about creating a whole typeface from scratch using a grid of some kind as a base to make something unique for the J-card design. I reviewed the patterns I had sourced from the banknotes and noticed there was a specific pattern that mainly ran throughout the whole design. It seems like it was the first layer of the note. I used this pattern as a simple grid to create my type with. The type turned out very sharp and pointy. It also did not lie on a straight line like normal type, it curved up and down a bit like a wave. This looks quite good for the context it fits within and I reckon the fact the whole thing is based upon punk, it could work perfectly. 

Another idea I had was to mimic some of the text from the note. I saw some of the text was be a certain size and gradually get smaller and smaller as it travelled across the note. I tried using a similar type to the one on the banknote and replicating this effect. Perhaps the text on the whole J-card could be getting smaller and smaller across the whole design. This replication is very simple but could be really great when put into context.

I finally decided to go back to my first idea which was sourcing the text directly from the note. I tried making the text a bit similar by using the same height for each letter and also making sure they were all straight. I found that having them all a bit wonky kind of reminded my of a really cliche punk design like the sex pistoles album artwork. One final thing I thought was to have the title in English instead of Portuguese. I made this decision because having the title in a different language might cause even more confusion over what the genre might be. It doesn't baldly state that it is Brazilian punk, only hinted at. Having this in English for an English audience seems like the most sensible idea.