Hand Drawn Type Research

Paul:

Abstract Calligraphy Fonts:

Everett Steeles - www.cooltext.com

This type isnt very legible. I found it really hard to understand what it said, the kerning between the letters isn't there for most of them, which means you wouldn't be able to adjust it. The fact they L's and T's have loops in them as well, next to the E's they look very similar which makes it even more illegible.

Greg's Other Hand - www.cooltext.com

This is another example of very close kerning. Nearly all the letters are connected to each other in this type. Having all the letters in capitals definitely helps make it more legible.

Five Cent - www.cooltext.com

Messy, relatively legible, the lettering is very weird though how they are all the same height. Normally the T would be taller than the rest of the type, same with the capitals. The ends of the E's join up with the rest of the letter too, this changes the shape of the E and makes it look like something else.

Ruthless Drippin Two. Regular - www.abstractfonts.com

Very messy. Because there is so much dripping from the letters it makes it difficult to read, I think it would be more effective if it had less dripping. It doesn't help that the actual font of the letters is a bit illegible, the dripping has just increased that. Looks a lot like something you'd see on a halloween sign.

Billy Angel Font - www.abstractfronts.com

free-flowing lines, made in one quick swift. Very soft and easy to read even though all the letters are connected to each other. The words are connected together and don't have much leading between them either which you would think would make it more illegible but the way the capitals have massive flicks off them helps make a bit of space.

Ginga, Regular - www.abstractfonts.com

Free-flowing lettering, very messy. Comes across very scratchy and rough. The flicks of paint/ink around the lettering is what makes it seem messy and this makes it a little illegible but the text as a whole is actually pretty easy to read. The tail from the letters looks like its been done to underline itself. The lines look like they've been produced with a pen thats running out or even leaking?

Abstract Calligraphy Artwork:

Kazuya Akimoto

www.kazuya-akimoto.com

"Japanese Abstract Vertical Calligraphy "

This artist is known for fine art, but he also does these abstract calligraphy pieces quite often. This piece stood out to me as at first glance it just looks like a load of paint mixed together. But the closer you look the more you can start to see letter forming, different people will see different things, and you see different thing each time you look at it. I think its a really good example of abstract calligraphy and whether or not you can tell the difference between calligraphy or art. When I looked at this I definitely thought it was art first not calligraphy.

postgraffiti.wordpress.com

Acrylic on canvas :: Nuno de Matos 2010

Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. This new work is close to Abstract Calligraphy and abstract Graffiti. Abstract writing is like a choreographic doodle for Matox. I found this piece really interesting because it looks like messy typical graffiti with a softer more elegant type over the top. Like the graffiti is just a background. At first it just looks like lots of swirls and stuff covering graffiti, but when you look closer you can see letters forming in the swirls. This is a great example of abstract calligraphy, definitely different to the majority of others I've seen. I personally feel this piece looks more like calligraphy than art.

Urban Abstract by Jopsu Ramu of Musuta and Shun Kawakami of Artless

www.hipbip.com/2009/12/urban-abstract-by-musuta
"Urban Abstract is a digital art piece created by Jopsu Ramu, the art director of Musuta Ltd(a multidisciplinary design agency based in Helsinki & Tokyo) in collaboration with Shun Kawakami (artless Inc.) an artist and designer from Tokyo. This digital art piece is being shown as the November break bumpers on TV Nelonen, one of the biggest commercial TV channels in Finland"

This piece comes from a video (can be seen on the link) and is definitely more art based than calligraphy. The only clear calligraphy part is the beginning with the number 4 within the image. Watching the video you could make letters out of different sections of the video but overall its more artistic.