This week I have began to shape the first letters of my font. At this point I haven’t named my font but i’ve decided to use characteristics of De Stijl art and design which will hopefully inspire a name soon. I notice how in pieces such as Composition Desentralisee by Theo Van Doesburg and Composition two by Piet Mondrian that they use almost a grid system to organise their pieces while somehow preserving a degree of spontaneousness. In response to my observation I began to experiment with the line tool on Adobe Illustrator using the grid view feature as a guide. From here I began to formulate the letter A using overlapping lines and grids. I felt an attraction to this due to the fact I could both visualise the letter and the De Stijl movement. From here I toyed with colouring in the squares and rectangles I had created by chance with yellows, reds and blues; a colour scheme favoured by many De Stijl artists. Although it did bring me closer to the art aspect of De Stijl, I unfortunately lost clarity. The A no longer stood out like it did when it was uncoloured. I instead experimented by colouring the lines themselves rather than internal shapes. I felt this worked much better as it served its purpose as a legible font quite well whilst also holding the shapes and order that I was looking for. Although much work is to be done this is, without a doubt, a start.
Checklist:
Check line spacings
Produce more of the alphabet