December 19, 2024

Love You

I'm honestly intrigued by the possibilities of using AI for typography. My cre process isn't uncommon, lay everything out in advance as a structure guide for Firefly. The problem is that Firefly is finicky with type. It's easier to get it to do what you want with thick, chunky type but if you try to run thin type through it normally the results aren't great.

My solve was to guess at how Firefly knows what to look at and thus determine what to add its effects to. I ended up inverting the colors which apparently was enough to get it to play along.

October 9, 2024

Toypography

I was looking at my daughter's toys last night and wondered if I could make something with them, well I could so I did.

August 13, 2024

AI Typography

Every day there's some new feature introduced to generative AI that has potential uses outside of what was planned. Like, I doin't think Adobe was even thinking about Typography when they introduced their take on structure references within Firefly.

This isn't super new, it's been a few months since I started seeing people use AI to stylize single words, but I wondered how far could you push it? Well, apparently more than I realized. Here is what I did in Illustrator and what it looked like after I sent it over to Firefly.

December 18, 2023

Birthday Invite

I wanted to make an invite for a birthday party I was putting together and ended up with this. For the record, the party didn't happen. I had to cancel after our babysitter got Covid and we couldn't find a new one. Bummer.

August 15, 2023

Minimal Alphabet

The other night I wanted to see if I could design a type face as minimally as possible. Starting with a base rectangle and seeing how I could distinguish each letterform with as few visual cues as possible. This was what I cam up with in my first 2 hour pass. I see a few things I'd maybe have done differently now, but as a thought experiment I think it shows what's possible.

I know more than a few people have tested their own minimal fonts/typography against the word minimum as well because of the similar letterforms so I thought it was a good test for this as well.

August 30, 2021

Clothes & Clothes Sans

Over the past month I've been developing a pair of complementary fonts titled "Clothes" and "Clothes Sans." I wanted to do something that was completely hand drawn because It's an area that I know I need to practice more. I use vector as a crutch with illustrations and wanted to get out of my comfort zone.

February 15, 2021

Now That You’re 21

I was listening to one of my favorite albums from when I was in high school (Midwestern Songs of the Americas by Dillinger Four) and remembered how much I loved this one song. I decided to practice some typography based on a few of the lyrics.

January 9, 2021

Beyond Nike

Just doing a little bit more lettering on my iPad because it had been awhile. Wanted to try combining a few different styles to see how it would come out.

Not loving how the DO fits in with the rest of it even if I like how it came out independently. Do like how the IT fits into the swash of the k though.

December 11, 2020

More Word Art

Did another typography project for my fiance.

December 11, 2020

Nilza Name Art

My friend Nilza was hanging out last night and I started playing with her full name (first + last) in Procreate on my iPad. I customized the Nico Roll brush that's built in so that it doesn't fade out at the start and end of the stroke, which is the first time I've ever customized a brush in Procreate.

July 23, 2020

Beach Boys Poster

This lyric has been running through my head for the past few days, feels appropriate for everything that's going on in the world.

July 15, 2020

Shower Sans on Reddit

I posted Shower Sans on r/Graphic_Design and it became the top post with over 2,500 likes. Additionally, of all the up and down votes on Reddit so far, it was up-voted 98% of the time, which is pretty crazy (at least to me).

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