Tuesday, August 28, 2007

When I Like You It's Total Revenge

So our project today in Type 01 (Typography 01) was to create a monogram and a new letter for the alphabet. I have already made three letters and four monograms (we have a week and a half to create one of each). I am a linguiphile.

My first letter was "cha." It replaces the "ch" sound in English language (ie: change, charge, chicken, chumbawumba... etc). It's an easily replicated form, that is fairly distinct. It might be mistaken for an "m," but only if you have really poor penmanship.

My second letter was "tho" and it replaces, you guessed it, the "th" sound in English language (ie: that, them, thick, thin, thunder thighs, etc...). It is also an easily replicatable and yet distinct form. It could be mistaken for a "T" but only, again with bad penmanship.

My third and final letter is "Shu," and this time it's "sh" that's getting the ax (ie: shrimp, ship, shoot, shallow, sh*t, etc...). The form is that of an "O" with an "I" in the middle (two letters which are often used to make the "sh" sound anyway). Once more easily replicated, and again only poor penmanship will get it confused with other letters, this time an "O".



Also, now anyone can comment on the blog, so feel free to comment. What do you think of these designs?

~Chow

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

only 'sh' shows up on mine; it is, however, a well-done monograph. it's simple and readable.

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