36 days of type
︎ ······· emerson lawton
︎ ······· type design
︎ ······· 2023
︎ ······· type design
︎ ······· 2023
I’d been considering jumping into the 36 days of type challenge before, but it always seemed like such a huge time commitment (and type design is hard!!!). Last year I was able to complete 26/36 of the challenge...... over the course of about 6 months.
This typeface is currently unnamed but was inspired by the imperfection and playfulness found in nature in the spring. I based my forms off of a hand-drawn flower doodle and used that bubbly, wonky shape as a unifying element across the alphabet. This quickly became an exercise in flow and experimentation for me - I only allowed myself a short amount of time to work on each letter, and then I forced myself to shut my laptop and walk away, resulting in a fair amount of letters I was pretty frustrated with. On the whole, this flexed my type muscles in a way that got me excited to continue working with a looser, more experimental type style and got me excited for the next type design challenge (maybe this time I’ll get to the numbers too).
This typeface is currently unnamed but was inspired by the imperfection and playfulness found in nature in the spring. I based my forms off of a hand-drawn flower doodle and used that bubbly, wonky shape as a unifying element across the alphabet. This quickly became an exercise in flow and experimentation for me - I only allowed myself a short amount of time to work on each letter, and then I forced myself to shut my laptop and walk away, resulting in a fair amount of letters I was pretty frustrated with. On the whole, this flexed my type muscles in a way that got me excited to continue working with a looser, more experimental type style and got me excited for the next type design challenge (maybe this time I’ll get to the numbers too).