Personal project, Type design
Modular Type: Fleur-de-lis
The Fleur-de-lis typeface started as a second-year design project and has been developed further after my degree completion.
Inspired by the fleur-de-lis symbol and the flower with the same name, I created this font using only basic geometric shapes and circle divisions, avoiding typical curve adjustments.
The result is a functional display font. I have used Fontself plug-n for Adobe Illustrator to convert this into a font for personal use. Due to spacing and kerning challenges, Fleur-de-lis is best suited for headlines, logos, and large-format applications rather than body text.
MY ROLE: Graphic Designer, Art direction
Process
Although I aimed to create this font using perfect circles, Adobe Illustrator needs shapes to overlap. This means that even if the modules have been created as perfect circle divisions, to combine these, a negligible portion of the module had to be used for joining the modules. This is because Illustrator cannot merge shapes that don't overlap.
I could have drawn the letter shape and used the initial squares as a reference but this would have led me away from the idea of modular type.