Alphabet Soup - Typeface

After responding to the feedback from the crit, I decided that I'd concentrate soley on developing stone sans, and the first thing to do in relation to the feedback was make the font thinner. I did this by adding a white stroke to the letters, which I'd set out in appropriate sizes for when they'd be printed out.

Showing How I Set Up The Pages And Added Strokes To The Letters To Thin The Inside

I then printed these letters out and traced them in pencil, allowing me to easier refine the shape of some of the letters, as adding the stroke had lost some of the detail in certain letters, an example of this is where the bowl joined the stem in the a, b, d, p and q, the joint wasn't pointed and instead had a horizontal line joining the two features.

My Drawn Outlines Of The Letters

I then scanned in these outlines so I could distort them in Photoshop by skewing them, in order to give them a more italic feel. The reason I'm doing this now rather than using Italic as part of the original font was because sometimes an italic font and a standard font vary in the shape of some of the letterforms, and by making it italic manually allowed me to keep the shape of the letters.

Skewing The Letters In Photoshop For A More Italic Look

From here on I will look at experimenting with different positions and styles of serifs, as well as experimenting with adding a little flick at the end of each letter like I spoke about in this post, something I haven't yet looked at doing.