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Drawing an alphabet – p

Personal project.
A letter p
A body font ‘p’

Initial idea: standard text font

Thought I should attempt a letter you might find in a ‘workhorse’ font. The sort that would be used in a book. Where do you start?

The main purpose of this type of font is to be unobtrusive. The idea of how such a font should look is quite fixed. Almost all novels are set in one of a handful of very similar looking fonts. It’s very difficult to create a font that is both unobtrusive and original.

This, then, is a bit of a pointless exercise.1 I’ve just copied some of the standard features of fonts of this type and not added anything.

This is part of a project to draw the letters of the alphabet in different styles.

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24 Nov 2017

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