According to the album artwork research we conducted as a group, there tends to be two main fonts present on the cover art, for the purpose of making it look structured and not too busy. As we thought the string was central to our music video and the most memorable, we thought it was absolutely important we make a reference to this on the cover artwork. Having searched through many font websites to gain ideas we couldn't find anything close to what we envisioned in our heads. During a creative session where we tried to draw out exactly what it was we were looking for, we decided that the closest we would get to achieving our ideal font is to simply draw it out and scan it in based upon a drawing our team member Keeley drew up (below).
The font would reflect the themes of the music video through being constructed in a thread-like style and intertwining into a heart shape much like in the music video and for added embellishment. The thread both fits in with our music video and represents the natural aspect of Amanda's star image.
Our primary concern was finding a font that would be the secondary out of the two. Our main idea was to find something rough and imperfect- perhaps something that even appears hand drawn to reflect the natural and imperfect themes of the music video and the album. Below are the different fonts we considered throughout our research for different reasons.
Points liked: Reflects a wooden texture, looks carved and connotes to nature, not too artistic to draw attention away from the main font and title. Points disliked: A little too plain and unoriginal for the album, doesn't appear scruffy enough- hand written font is our preference
This was one of our favourite ideas, however the font style appeared too busy to work with our main font. The swirls and the general movement of the font across the page fits perfectly with what we were looking for though.
This font worked where it looked almost de-bossed into a texture and was our closest consideration for the album title- it also resembles the font for Amanda's album Hope From the Forgotten Woods.
This font worked really well and the style really connotes to "wood" but wasn't visually compatible enough with our primary font.
This font was appealing but it resembled the primary font a little too much to work visually, although this was a step in the right direction.
This font connotes to everything that we were aiming for- innocence, trees and nature, but it seemed a little to perfect for the front cover.
Our Final Font
We found this font on the website http://www.dafont.com/ called Stonehand Saul and thought it ticked all the necessary boxes. It reflected imperfection, and resembled an etching into wood which was what we were aiming for. The letters though were all separate which was also important to differentiate the primary and secondary fonts.
The Amanda Font
These are the final typefaces that Keeley created ans scanned in. When designing these fonts, we were concerned as to how we were going to incorporate red thread into our font image. One of the solutions was to import an image of the red thread into Photoshop, but there was the risk of this looking unconvincing. The second was to simply fill the font with a single red colour. The latter is the result below. Surprisingly enough, the font ended up resembling thread in a more convincing way than expected. The first font below is our final image that will be used on the album artwork.
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