36 days - L

Today I hit a bit of a wall when drawing the letter L initially I had Letraset and ligatures written down. Had been planning to do Letraset but was unable to source any of the now antiquated transfer sheets. Faced with the option to mock up a Letraset  L with a possibly only partial transfer or some kind of abstraction I decided to go for the route of ligatures. The LL ligature seemed the most obvious and least distracting from the original form so I went ahead and did a quick bit of research before sketching.

Wiki:
Ll/ll is a digraph which occurs in several natural languages.

English[edit]

In English, ll often represents the same sound as single l: /l/. The doubling is used to indicate that the preceding vowel is (historically) short, or that the "l" sound is to be extended longer than a single "l" would provide (etymologically, in latinisms coming from a gemination). It is worth noting that different English language traditions transpose "l" and "ll": British English "travelled" and like words, for example, are usually spelled with a single "l" (i.e., "traveled," et al.) in U.S. English.

Also used in: Welsh, Spanish, Icelandic etc...

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The following sketches looked at the different ways of setting out the ligature, with an emphasis on originality but also a consideration for legibility.


















Final outcome including two variations in the 36daysoftype colour way:


"L is for ligature - two or more characters combining to create a new form. The LL digraph is used in a range of languages from Welsh to Albanian." 


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