Initial Ideas Experimentations

To continue with my experimentations as I'm not happy with my previous ideas, I began to use Lucida Blackletter as a starting point as I want to focus on her interests in tarots and mythology and I find Lucida Blackletter to be a very true representation of gothic and medieval, 15th century 

calligraphy. 

The first two are the original typeface. The next I free enlarged to fit within different square grid sizes - cap height would reach 2 boxes high and 2 boxes across and the lowercases would all fit within 1 box and would keep the ascenders and descenders at x-height. The next - I increased the ascender and descender's heights to the same as the cap height then placed them so that they would expand past x-height however the inconsistency was too messy to be representative of the idea of disorderly order.

• I explored warping tools so that the distortions could follow rules set by Illustrator. I warped the typeface I created from Blackletter by curving all the sharp lines within the letters. I found this quite interesting and successful and need to explore it more. 

• I then explored the previous idea of atoms and dots which is also iconic because of the accent in her name ( ö ) which I thought was quite interesting as it's expressive, symbolic and following a rule however I feel as though it's not a new typeface but just a decorative version of Lucida Blackletter.
• To counteract this I rounded all the points of the Blackletter typeface then merged circles into wherever a harsh point initially was and this is successful in being more of a new typeface and also represents the idea of poetry and organic-ness as it resembles handwritten calligraphy however I still don't feel I've pushed the experimentation far enough as it's still very symbol and very representative of the original typeface.