The deadline gets near and the nights get longer. It got to around midnight when I finished the last of my 4 scheduled illustrations for the day. I usually wrap things up between 1.00 and 1.30 am latest 2.00, so it wasn't time to finish working but wasn't enough time to start on tomorrow's to-do list. I decided to use the last hours to play around with the title font that would be on the cover and appear in the intro of my publication.
I found a font online that I liked and started to play around with it, I changed the size of the first letters and made the Leeds text fit snug inside of the haunted. (rather proud of myself, as text and logos ain't my strongest element to my practice) now that I was happy with what I made I pushed the idea of having Leeds Haunted in a creepy way.
After playing around and not feeling any of the ideas I tried to spark something by introducing colours to my ideas...maybe it was because it was late but nothings seemed to pop out to me...so I decided to use google as a tool for inspiration. I googled horror logos, scary book covers...
AND THEN!!! this happened -
Look at this, the title that I've had in mind for my publication for months is almost identical to the title of a paranormal investigation team, (some crap T.V show)...coincidentally I had arranged my text the same way that this T.V show had. I'm all for the entertainment world and a big fan of rubbish T.V on a Sunday but I don't want my publication to be affiliated with this garbage...I don't want it to be seen as a rip-off of or some kind of spin- off to the show...that would just be embarrassing.
...that was the best typography that I have ever done
TO THE DRAWING BOARD!
:)
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