OUGD404 - Birth of a Font

The first step in this task was to identify all the individual parts that make up typography, this anatomy of the letters. Once each part of the letters were determined we cut the letters up to create lots of smaller pieces that could be interchanged between several different fonts we had selected, bold, gothic, script and serif.
During the session we were asked to make about 200 different variations of just upper case and lower case A and B's. I found the best way to work was systematically, so only changing one aspect of the altered letter form each time as there were literally thousands of possibilities.

Here are some of the outcomes of the altered letter, as you can see a lot of them dont work together with the swapped around parts, but the the second part of this task was to identify 5 letters that did work and develop them from that.

I first copied out the altered letter forms in pencil to get the shapes of the letter right, I then went over the pencil in a marker so when i scanned the image in the marker would show up so i could live trace it into Illustrator.

These are the final outcomes of the letters.