designing a new font
colourblock madness
Colourblock Madness appears 3D thanks to a simple shadow effect. Coloured fonts are very difficult to customise so I came up with a solution for this. For each character, I created several alternate glyphs, each with the same shape but a different colour palette. This would be ideal for differentiating between different sections of text within the same company or adding emphasis to key information.
Colourblock Madness, shown above, is an original font that I drew in Adobe Illustrator. I wanted to create a fun, youthful typeface that would feel handdrawn, modern and jump out of the page at whoever reads it. I also wanted it to work well in English and French.
The first version of my font used both upper and lower case letters and was deliberately misaligned, as if a young child was writing. This is the font you can see in the old macintosh computer image below. Although it was fun and youthful, I didn’t feel it was professional enough to be used commercially so I went back to the drawing board and created Colourblock Madness!
