Going back to my earlier Adobe Illustrator brief, I have had another play around with different types and colours as we as opacity and half tones. At this stage I am still experimenting however, I am working in Black and Yellow currently. I am basing this on my earlier brief where I had to create 10 letterforms based around the word 'layer', I used acetate and physically layered lowercase on top of uppercase letters to create an aesthetically attractive appearance that worked well and met the criteria of the brief. I now have to take one of those letterforms and create a digital typeface of 26 letters and 6 glyphs using Adobe Illustrator. Here are some of my experimentations:
Here I have experimented with different typefaces and how they work when laid out onto an A1 sheet. I think the two typefaces above work really well however confusion can be caused when layering the lowercase on top of the uppercase. I may experiment further with these typefaces as I feel their simplicity should work really well. Below I decided to change my focus and experiment with more 'dominant' typefaces. On the left is the original typeface in purely capitol letters, and the right shows the typeface after I have layered lowercase over the top. I think this looks effective in this format however when considering how this would read when constructing words I feel that some of the letters would be illegible and so I decided to further experiment with different typefaces and begin to incorporate colours.
Below is where I have begun to incorporate colour, opacity, halftones and experiment further.
Below I decided to move on to different typefaces and see how a varied letter structure would give a different appearance to the overall final letterform.
Below I have experimented with solid colour and half tones to show how this can represent my word 'layer' more effectively. The yellow and black contrast well with one another giving a really powerful appearance to the letterforms.
