The 27th Letter

For this typography project, we were required to create a 27th letter of the alphabet. We chose which font we would like to work with, and were to create a Capitol and lowercase letter that were totally new but fit seamlessly into the alphabet in the font we had chosen. I chose to work with Caslon, and I enjoyed the challenge of working with the curves and serifs of this lovely font. Below you can see my process in measuring the letter forms, drafting new possible forms, and taking them through to completion. Posters show the letter forms both on their own and nestled in their alphabet. This was a fantastic exercise for learning how the anchor point tools in Illustrator work, and how minute and precise adjustments must be to create something that fits within an existing system.