FontFront Letters

Back in April 2012 I took part in a contest organized by Hungarian graphic designers. The subject of the tournament was an almost daily typographic duel of the same glyph illustrated/redesigned by both players. (The afterlife or “side effect” of this story can be followed in The Signed Nature 1 set.) My first two contributions to the game were the lowercase “k” and the number “7”. (I lost the duel each time, sad, but true.) The letter was a vector output of a rasterizing application fed by a blurred image of a Bodoni glyph, which was split and regrouped again in Illustrator, then finally filtered in Photoshop. The number, in contrast, was drawn and rendered in a 3D application, after which I applied some image adjustments on it. The third candidate—the “ah” ligature produced in Illustrator and Photoshop only—finally won the contest.