This project was to Create a range of letterforms using various different materials. Rather than choose one font, I chose a range of typestyles to match the materials used. I created my own font, made mince tarts and decorated Christmas Bauble .
I also photographed type in the community/home by looking for letters in unusual settings. I chose to use my home and the ASDA car park.
The text below is one that I designed using Fontstruct.
As this project was over the Christmas period, I decided to use Christmas as a theme, and for this typeface used a similar font to Gil Sans on puff pastry to create Merry Christmas mince tarts. This was not easy, but I used a knife to score the pastry, then added the mincemeat over the letter and baked in the oven so the pastry puffed up and left the mincemeat as the letters.
Gil Sans lent itself well to the medium as the capital letters were easier to transfer to the pastry. As you can see, pastry is quite unpredictable in its ability to keep the shape of the letters!
We did enjoy eating them afterwards though with a bit of brandy cream!
Baubles did not lend themselves to a sans serif font and worked much better with a calligraphic more scriped font.
The glitter glue and the curve of the bauble dictated the swirly lettering in order to create a letter that worked with both the curve of the ball and allowed the glue to flow, much like ink from a pen but much thicker.
The following are letters within existing objects around the house.
I also went around the ASDA car park looking for letters and here is a partial alphabet from there:
