Drawing an alphabet – 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.

1. NO!