Iterations through ideation

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From what I had looked at from my initial research, I decided to begin by exploring by creating. Here are rough sketches of the Hebrew word YHWH (Yahweh) also known as Jehovah. I decided to use my sketchbook which had a grid system. This was to analyse each letter form within the grid and work out how many squares would make up each letter for the word YHWH.


I decided to continue exploring this grid by sketching out different Hebrew lettering styles that I had come across from the research and current fonts that I have. I could identify that each letter type is clearly different in design style but still connotes a strong sense of geometric design.

To help me identify each type design, I used different colours to help distinguish the differences in design structures that I could spot from each letter of each different font. I used this to then recreate my own vectored font which is presented in blue. 

The type that I had created seen here in blue, shares familiarities with Modernim type design. To be more specific, the design movement Russian Constructivism is something that I feel connotes this very well as design style. 

The fonts used:

Arial Hebrew Scholar (black)
Unknown רעננה (Red)



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