Project 6 Typographic Portrait

When I first began choosing a typeface for this project, I trued out a few of the letters from several different typefaces, to see how they would work with revealing the same curves and lines of my face, more specifically, which would work best for my nose. The one that worked the best was Ayuthaya. I began with my nose because it was going to be one of the hardest shapes on my nose. Another difficult aspect to this project was trying to draw lines with the letters, like the outline of my face or glasses. I used the technique of grouping many letters together and overlapping them to create harder, cleaner lines. This project has made me think of typography in more a shape manner and has helped me realize that letters are shapes and can be manipulated into creating a feeling along with a shape. It has also made me think differently about ways of finding design solutions, at first I wasn’t getting the clean lines I was looking for, after a while, I realized that lines aren’t as important as the layout that implies there is a line there. I found this project to be very difficult. To create lines that are from man- made objects (type) is really hard. Some things I’ll try next time are adjusting the opacity and maybe trying out different typefaces, with more of an organic feel to them.


Original Portrait




Typographic Comp



Typographic Portrait