In our second workshop we started designing our own typefaces and learnt the hard way how difficult it is to draw a type! Choosing a font and writing a letter on a grid in Adobe Indesign, I began sketching and copying the letter by hand in my sketchbook. We did this by following an online guide: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-basics-of-drawing-type-creating-your-own-handwritten-font–cms-23089 

By the end of my work I was very proud of my letter “F”, and decided I wanted to do a whole word, and try a serif font – up the game a little bit! This one, I definitely found more difficult, trying to make sure the correct parts were thicker and thinner, and each letter being the same distance apart.

Despite it being harder, I do much prefer the san serif font. I feel its just more interesting and appealing to look at. For my project I think I would like to create a type that is san serif.