Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.
Name typography is using the art and technique with your name, giving your personality to the text itself.
We were tasked with writing 20 statements about ourselves and then drawing 3 sketches for each statement. Then we picked 12 of the best ones and recreated those in Illustrator.
These were my 12 without any wording.
These two below are my favorite and I can't pick which one I like best. The one to the right is for my love of music (the font is Paramore Album and the arrow and line is from Anavae), the one to the left is a remake and entirely vectored font of my name put in the Nightwing logo.
The Final Print
Creating these name plates helps us understand the importance of choosing the correct type of font and matching it with how the word is used.
Example; "My name is Faith, and I will out scream the cicadas." The font I chose was decible because it looked loud and screeching which matched my words 'out scream'.
