When you give your very first letter design to a typographer for them to turn into a font, it's a bit like leaving your child at nursery for the first time.You are very precious about her and she is your most beautiful creation to date. You hope the typographer will adore her more than any of the other kids and understand her little quirks and make allowances or smooth them over - okay, okay this comparison could get more twee and much worse, but I did feel this way a bit.Philip sent me a sample … [Read more...]

I began to design the text thinking I should do it the way I did the cartouches for my orchids. I found some nice Zerkall Wavy paper and a soft pencil and began drawing.But I spoke to Philip and he explained that he would have to vectorise them as there would be complicated textured edges.Okay, let me explain about VECTORS and BITMAPSIf you have a digital letter in, say Word, you can change the size or stretch it (and wreck the proportions) . But you can't add a flourish or change the shape of … [Read more...]