Romeo and Juliet captured in emotion.
In this project I tried to tell the story of Romeo and Juliet in emotion instead of only text. Because I’ve been busy with typography I tried to do this with a typeface. I was curious if
I could tell which scene it was only with these emotions processed into a typeface. The emotions are displayed by diamonds and crosses. Diamonds standing for love and the cross stands for hate. The bigger the shape, the heavier this emotion in that scene. The shapes are always in relation to each other. If love is bigger than hate is smaller. In this way the shapes will show reflection of these emotions in this story.
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You can read this story on the basis of emotions instead of text. In scenes where both emotions are balanced you can read the text. However if one of both emotions will get the upper hand the text gets really hard to read. It will get more abstract. Love makes blind. But hate will do the same. I've made this project in Processing and I made a book with it aswell. In this book I used summaries of every scene of this story and I also put this summary in my typeface. In this way you can see the whole story, the literal text and the emotion in that specific scene. I tried to show the multiply layers of each scene in Romeo and Juliet.
I had the chance to expose this project at the Dutch Design week 2016.
