Fivehead
Fivehead is a quirky, goofy, and in-your-face family to be used for display. Its very tall x-height, stylistic contrast, and bottom-heavy shapes make it stand out and give it presence in signage, packaging, or whatever you decide to put it on.
Skills
Type Design
Concept Visualization
Tools
Adobe Illustrator
Glyphs
Adobe Photoshop
Inspiration
I was inspired by advertising typography of the ‘50s, with its fun energy and bouncy forms.
Type Design Process
The process began with designing the proportions and rounds of a few specific letters to create a sort of template for the others. With these proportions and rounds, I was able to create many of the other letterforms using the template as a base. From Illustrator, I brought the letter shapes into Glyphs and started to make slight alterations as well as add letter spacing. All along, I printed out test sheets of letter combinations, modified spacing and ligatures, and repeated the process.
