I started experimenting with different manipulations using the diagonal lines and the cut off corners. I used the pathfinder menu to achieve this. I used the grid whilst designing this type to try and make it as accurate as possible. I experimented by changing different sections of each letterform and made sure i tried out a few ideas.
I decided to go with the diagonal lines running upwards from the left to the right as if they were leaning forward. This shows my partners outgoing personality. I wanted to make the diagonal sections of the letter have a stroke weight at a ratio of 118:150 to the thickest part of the letterform. To do this I had to do some simple maths. I divided 118 by 150 and the multiplied it by 100. This gave me the percentage I needed to achieve the ratio. When rounded up it was 79%.
I drew out the boxes at the same width as the thickest point in the letterform and then used the scale tool to make them the right ratio.
When working on the letters I had not kept them all to the same size which was a mistake as I had to spend a long time lining up the manipulated letterforms with the original typeface to ensure each glyph was the right size. I also changed some of the heights on the serifs as I wanted to ensure all the letters in lower case had the same height serif.
After I had all the letters at the right size and the right height I wanted to round off the edges slightly. I felt that it was too sharp and unforgiving and this did not show Josiah's personality. I wanted to make it look slightly friendlier whilst still keeping the clean cut precise aesthetic.
I was really pleased with the way the typeface came out and I would like to look at making it into a working font.
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