In todays lesson we looked at physically manipulating characters by hand. In the examples below you can see how I changed the properties of this serif Typeface, by removing them, rendering it a completely new glyph. It's interesting to see how, by doing something as simple as this you don't just change how it appears, you change connotations associated with it too. Serifs and San Serifs can often symbolise different things.
Here in these last two photographs I've chosen an example I was particularly fond of: It's a manipulation of Ariel. The letter 'R' has always stood out for me with this font; a poor rendition of Helvetica it may be, but the weight variation on the leg of the R is inexcusable, it's absolutely hideous. My version, where the leg is uniform and angled straight outwards is much better in my opinion.
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