@36daysoftype - G

I had a choice of three topics on my list for today generative, grotesque or Gutenburg. Having originally wanting to do generative I decided that I didn't have time to learn some new interesting coding and run it through processing so maybe I'll save moving type that's also generative till at least kinetic in a few letters time. but it's becoming clear that the amount of time I have for letters each day is quite squeezed especially when I consider the documentation so I need to be realistic and not get too engrossed.

With this in mind, today's was a very time effective submission. I plumped for geometric because I don't have an alternative to Johannes Gutenburg for J and geometric type is about the purity of geometric form so the intricacies shouldn't take too long to iron out.

I started off sketching some fairly rounded shapes with an emphasis on minimising negative space but a lot of the initial sketches weren't perfectly geometric enough. So I went back to the drawing board and started playing around with vectors on illustrator.

Using two circles, one off-centre and a square on the right corner. I created a geometric system that was worked into a semi-abstract G. From research I found much of the existing geometric letterforms too be too strictly evenly weighted to create as many perfect geometries as possible, however, to create a more original and interesting letter form the submission relied on more inventive setting.   

The final shape was then placed on a darker blue background for depth of field and offset with a green radial gradient inside the negative space. The end effect is a 3D feel with the consistently coloured foreground shape appearing to be a gradient due to the change in contrast.

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"G is for Geometric - a futuristic rendition of the modernist genre, using abstracted perfect squares and circles"