Print Analysis

Digital Type Annotations

After choosing my digital types off DaFont, I printed my fonts out and annotated them. I focused on things like the baseline, whether they are bold or not, the theme etc. Some of them aren't so nice after closer inspection, but a few would work perfectly on the front of my children's book. 

Fonts

The font that I do on the cover of my book is really important. To make sure that I really got the font that is truly perfect, I drew a variety and scoured DaFont for suitable types. These will greatly aid me in the future when I am choosing a font for the cover.

These are the fonts that I chose after looking at DaFont. There is a range of thick and thin fonts to give it more variety when I come to choose one.

These are my pages of hand drawn type. I took inspiration from nature, as this is a nature-themed book, and really like the way it turned out. 

Contact Sheet

My contact sheet displays all the photographs that I took. I circled the ones that I found useful and crossed out the ones that weren't. I went to a woodland area near me to take the pictures and really like the way that they have turned out. Some of them didn't turn out so well, so I crossed them off, however some of them worked really well and will prove to be helpful to me when designing the front cover of my children's book.

Drafting

Drafting is my next bit of research. I chose my favourite idea and refined it. I really like the outcome after the refinement but I will probably change it as I progress with the task and more ideas come into my head.