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Hélas Font Family

Instinctive Writting Font project : Hélas Font Family
Work in Progress in collaboration with Fontself

I've always been fascinated by Type, Calligraphy, Handwritting… Letters.
I decided to start making my first Font Family using the plugin Fontself for Illustrator.
In this post, you will see all the steps, fails or wins

1. SEARCHING AN ORIGINAL WRITING spirit
Elegant with beautiful full and loose are not so commons. I wanted to create an elegant type family which could be used for beautiful titles, for press or web usage. I'm planning to use it as a webfont on my personal website.
This first step is the most important for me, it requiers to be well installed, to warm your hand and have enough ink and paper. For this first step, I personally recommand to drink Tea instead of Coffee to avoid "Hand-shaking" :) 


2. WORKING ON EACH LETTER
For this second part, the most important is to chose the good size of the characters and the inclinaison depending of the tool used. For novices, it could be a good idea to know the Type terms.
3. FINDING THE NAME
“Hélas” is the french word for “Unfortunately.
I love it.
Even if it is a little word, it allows you to see important typefaces with a fluid writing look.
4. NAME VECTORIZATION
This step launches the digital process. I switched from paper to Illustrator and start the vectorization process with one goal :
find accurate curves with the less anchor points possible. 
This is all for today…
Don't forget to follow the project !
:)
Hélas Font Family
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Hélas Font Family

Helas : an instinctive elegant handwriting type

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