Type for T

Alrite, so I wanted a typeface which fitted in with my design, I thought about downloading one but it was just to much hassle and I would never find what I wanted. It was at this point I then decided to draw up a typeface which went quite well for once.

I started out by roughly drawing the letters out in thin 0.15 strokes and then I built on them with a bit more character and used different strokes to get this bold effect.

It was then time for colour, I started off by putting in the dark tones at the edge of the lettering, I chose purple and yellow because it fitted in with octopus pantone and I used purple first as it creates a visual hook.

I then added a lighter shade of the colours which created a more bold appearance.

To finish off I coloured in the rest of the white spacing in with a lighter tone of the colours used and took away the original black lining to see how it looked without it.

Confidently I added in the black as it made the type just look better, I then added a dark grey backing to make 'drop dead' bolder.

Out of curiosity I tried an interesting colour technique which I found really cool, but I realised I was getting side tracked and it was not an appropriate way to be using my time and made the decision to leave it and move on.

With the type done I figured it was an appropriate time to play around with image and type layout. I found that the type was to big and took away from the image.

I really like this layout although I feel as though I can make the image interact with the type more.

I don't like this one as much, the type is to far away and I think it should be placed on the right hand side, but I do like how it appears as though the octopus is holding the type up.

Which is when I came to this idea of placing the type at a angle and placed the type away from overlaying the imagery which looked really good, the next step is to mock up some T-shirts and play around with layout.