Here is the first digitally made prototype:
After making the alphabet, I tried making a few words out of them just to see what they'd look like:
I noticed there were still lots of flaws, so I cleaned up each of the letters:
Some letters needed a bit of fiddling to work:
After that was done, I didn't really have any specific ideas for colour schemes, so I experimented. Since this is a non-representational typeface, I wanted the design to be abstract and not to reflect any real-life imagery, but I also wanted it to be pretty:
I liked some of the stuff that I was coming up with, but it wasn't really exciting or interesting. I looked through some pictures I've saved for some more inspiration, and I decided that I wanted to try something with navy blue and gold tones. I also thought that adding a skinny border would house the typeface nicely and class it up a bit. I think the font has that upscale kind of look, so I tried to keep it elegant:
The combo was nice buuuuut... not nice enough. Still, I didn't want to overpower the font with some other kind of artistic abstract elements. It's simple, but still deserves the main focus of attention. So I decided to take a picture of some flowers I had and overlay it on the typeface, which would create some interest colour-wise, yet refrain from cluttering the whole image:
I jimmied the picture around a little, and voilà! I wasn't actually intending for so much red to be seen but I really liked how it turned out. It's a nice primary colour triad.
When I printed this, the blue actually turned black, but I was half-expecting that with the texture I used. The black looks dandy anyway, so I'm not upset, but these are the originally intended colours.
I made some examples of how the typeface could be used in real life, first on an album cover, second as branding for a restaurant:
(I really like how "PopRamen" turned out. c:)
This whole typeface was based off of the bowl shape of the "o". (I call this "Cuprite" because the word "cup" is in it, and the shape also looks like a cup :L) The bowl/cup shape served as the x-height, and nothing was allowed to go higher or lower than that line unless it was an ascender or descender. So even the lines on the "k" and "t" had to stay at that height, and this presented a bit of a challenge when trying to make the "e" or "s" conform to the original shape.
When it came to letters like "n" and "m", I flipped the cupbowl upside down to keep the shape. Every letter is based off of adding or subtracting from that original shape.
Sooo this is how Cuprite came to be. I'm pretty happy with what's come up, and I hope you like it too. :)
