Charles Darwin
Jack the Ripper
Charles Dickens
Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria
I have an idea to create the Victorian writing book titled how to write like a Victorian. These will be the 5 people whose writings will feature in this book.
Charles Dickens- seems to have a rather bold style of writing which I presume was created through a lot of pressure with the pen to paper. Also, I like his really over exajurated flourish on the underneath of his signature. He does this on all of his letters.
Charles darwin- seems to write with less of a slant than the other writers here.
Florence Nightingale- has the neatest handwriting and also has the most variance in line thickness for letterforms. Her writing is rather elegant.
Queen Victoria- I am shocked to see this handwriting from queen Victoria. I honestly thought that she would have the neatest handwriting. Although it follows the form of a victorian script style of writing, it is not neat and there isn't a massive consistency to height of letters etc. I would have thought that queen Victoria's writing would be more ornate and refined.
Jack the ripper handwriting- As predicted, this is the worst example of handwriting for consistant form. It is scrawled into the page, it looks like the work of a psychopath. Also, the transcribed understanding of the letter is both interesting and horrifying. He talks of sending somebody a kidney in the post and him eating the other kidney that belonged to the victim. Nice.
I am relying on interenet imagery of handwritings and although they are an informative source you can do very little with them in terms of design because the image quality is so low. I have tried searching in books for the writings also but to no avail. Therefore, I plan to stylise the writings. I want to turn them into vector lettering.
I am having to manually create outlines for the vectored font. This way, I get curves that are desired. I have tried to live trace the text, but I just cannot get enough detail. The text becomes really blocky in places and does not show enough of the letterform. I have even tried various plug ins but to no avail. Therefore, the 5 or 6 famous Victorian writings will be traced manually. This takes time, but I think that the final result will be really striking.
The final Vectored writings
I am going to be truthful, these have taken me far too long. I should have maybe just focused on a few words from the letters or just the alphabet from each of the victorians, but it is done now and now I can enlarge the writings to any size that I like without the worry of pixilation.
Charles Darwin
I am really interested in individual letterforms that I have created by creating vectored type. I think that these are more interesting than the actual whole piece of writing. I am so interested in the individual letters that I am going to create an alphabet for the 5 writers which use the vectored font that I have created.
Jack the ripper- I am really interested in the way that this font overlaps and is written so poorly. Also, I think that this will make a very interesting alphabet.
Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria
These are final font posters that I have created from vectorising the font of the writers. I think they are really interesting however they do not work as a font that you could use as a script because they are incomplete (unless you only use the characters that are here). On the bottom right hand corner of the poster I have included a small transcibe of the origional piece of writing that the font was taken from. I have used Egyptienne as the typeface in two weights, bold and regular. I have used the font in bold for the titles to give it a little bit more weight so that it separates the title visually from the main bulk of text. More importantly, I have chosen Egyptienne because it is a serif font that is based on a Victorian typeface. It is a very refined typeface. It also has an element of sophistication about it. I think it reflects the Victorian period well and is perfect for use in my font posters. I am also going to use the font for any other text areas on designs that I produce.
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