Where did it come from? In 2019 I made up my own drawing challenge to coincide with the other popular October drawing challenges on Instagram. I followed the prompt list for Inktober but made up film titles from the prompts, writing them out in different “fonts” that I could make. I started the project in August by tracing out, I want to say, 45 different alphabets. I would then trace over letters to create words, so I was still creating something new each day on that day. Barth was one of those 45 alphabets.
Type Design
A Bit of Background Earlier this year I had been on a kick of watching Giallo films or having them on in the background and listening to their soundtracks. During this time, I was also seeing a lot of the film posters come up in my Pinterest feed. I had seen Giallo posters in the past with a much cleaner look, but in my mind, the hand-drawn lettering was much more interesting. It also seemed to work better with the paintings, and for the time, did a beautiful job uniting the film and soundtrack as a well-unified piece of artwork.
So, I’ve been building typefaces for a while now, but I’ve never made a serious (or even a half-hearted) attempt to create a connected script. I’ve had it explained to me several times, watched videos on YouTube and Skillshare, and even paid for some online lessons. Whether it was because I was too disengaged or for some other reason, the information never “took.”