As mentioned in a previous post, the a lot of the content of the book will digitalised letterforms from the scanned in books I've bought. This post (as well as some that will be following) will show this progression.
Digitalising a blackletter font:
45 degree angles were used to keep the characters consistent:
As you can see, the blackletter characters were really complex to create:
The uppercase E, before curves are added:
The finalised characters (metrics still need to be organised):
Anorthic example from the same book:
Getting the curve right on the uppercase S was difficult;
The example in context:
The finalised characters:
Here is another example. Apart from the slightly expressive R, the rest of the characters were easy to create:
Since I was lacking sans serif's, and no italics whatsoever, the example below was digitalised:
all the characters were designed at a specific angle, as shown below:
Final letterforms:
More characters being digitalised:
The serifs before curves are added:
The curves added:
These seemed to chunky, so were made thinner and wider:
An uppercase L that was too heavy:
The quirky uppercase A:
The final letterforms:
