Zombie Type// Western Block & Zombie Type Revisitedmu

In all honesty I really don't like theses, They look to rushed. The Light Italic and The Ultra Bolds don't work for me at all. Considering they came from cut outs of other letters its not like I'm supposed to expect the world from theses. To make them a bit fresher I used live trace on Illustrator.

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Zombie Type Revisited

MUNCIE

Engravers MT

I've decided to go in more depth with this task but I don't want to use the letters that I created myself as they are useless because they are weak designs. I scanned the internet and CS to find two fonts of only 1 letter from each that I could use and play with. One with serifs and one without. The 'R' is from the font 'Muncie' and the other 'R' is from 'Engravers MT'. Quite simply I am going to try and merge the two and create a new letter form. I am going to take parts from each and hopefully come up with something interesting. I am tempted to do this with a series of different letters. 

Here I have taken the bottom serifs from Engravers and simply added them to Muncie. Already the letter is different visually.

Here we have Geneva CY and Aldine Expanded. Aldine Expanded being the very western font with the huge serifs. I am interested to see how this come out as Aldine Expanded is very big and chunky compared to Geneva CY which is a very simple and skinny font. However I could end up creating something new and interesting that I could take futher. Thats what I like about this task. If something works its very tempting to take it further. 

Geneva CY and Aldine Expanded

In conclusion to this I have created a very ugly letter. It doesn't work visually and the edges especially are to sharp when considering that the serifs are ment to be nice and smooth. The main problem is Geneva CY is much to skinny compared to Aldine Expanded. Even though I could use the free transform tool I still had many problems making the overall look of the letter look suitable!

Rockwell Extra Bold & Silom

Apart from my quick custom serifs I made from the bold serifs from Rockwell Extra Bold this works quite nicely. Again not perfect but it was quite easy to do and I am sure if I wanted to take this letter forward I could make it much nicer. Out of the three I have already done I must say that the first example to me is the most positive and the one that works the best. I feel this is because both fonts are very similar, apart from one being serif and one san serif. 

Font!

Muncie

Here I decided to make a thicker version of Muncie because the font was too thin to work with on paper. It was a lot easier to follow with the grid also. I then began to add serifs with black pen to make then more apparent. 

Finished font