Type Choice - My Designs

The digital calligraphy fonts found on Pinterest and Dafont Inspired me to get a calligraphy pen and some ink and attempt at giving the style a go myself. I started by drawing out the alphabet in both upper and lower case using the calligraphy pen.

By doing this I got a feel for using the calligraphy pen and decided to practace further by re-writing the title of the book, The Pied Piper. Unfortunately in the process I did make mistakes by accidentally switching words around, but when it came to editing later on, these mistakes were easily correctable.

This last image above it the style I was more or less aiming at, therefore it was the type I used when creating my final finished title.

When In photoshop I used the lasso tool to arrange the letters and words, I used the threshold edit to make the type darker and also the eraser tool to alter certain mistakes I had made with the calligraphy pen.

I also Placed the title into Adobe Illustrator in order to make much more detailed edits to the type that would make it look much more crisper and cleaner.

Once I had cleaned up the small mistakes in the lines of the title, I experimented around with some of the pre-set brush settings in Adobe Illustrator to see whether any of the brush effects would make it look any nicer.

Most of these brush effects worked well and made the title look rather rough and creepy in some cases. but it seemed to me that the titles lost their hand written charm and almost spoilt the effect i wanted. Therefor, I have decoded that I wont use one of these brush effects, and I will just use the plain title of the Pied Piper.