The text that I will be using for this project is a poem called Daffodils by William Wordsworth. The poem is very lighthearted and reminds me of the summer so my goal is also to create a font that feels light and summery. My own handwriting was kind of an influence when I started doodling options on paper. I decided to create this type using a modular method. My grid for each letter is 3/4″ x .4″ all letters will be created in lower case.

Some rules I set for my type are:

• Letters need to have an organic feel
• There will be subtle serifs at the bottom of every stem and descender
• Bottom of stem needs to be wider than the top of the stem
• Stems for letters like “b”, “d”, and “l” have to be 3/4″
• X-height is 1/3″ or 1/3 the height of the grid

I think that these rules will fit my text because they are in lowercase and to me when I see something in lower case letters I get the message that this is more relaxed and casual. This poem is not very deep it is very descriptive. Therefore there is a lot of imagery created within the poem. When I read it I could literally picture the scene Wordsworth painting in my head. So I think that it is important that the type doesn’t take away from the poem, instead I want it to be present on the page, but not stand too strong like a type in all caps would or a thicker/bolder type.