Here's my final adaptation of the 'FRIENDS' script; 
I'm personally unahppy with the result as a whole,  however there are some aspects which I do indeed like. I think the structure is rather messy and doesn't flow particularly well, BUT, I think for the most part, my choices of fonts work rather well together.

This was initially going to be my first page of the script for the opening lines, however I didn't like this layout at all and so have included it here purely to show my mistakes. I think the problem with this rendition is the fact that there's a bit too much going on with very little separation. There isn't much of a flow which makes it hard to read normally. Also, it all looks a bit too samey; theres nothing to break up the barrage of text. I would later work on this by adding subtle elements of imagery in there to compliment and emphasise certain words.

Having gathered some brief information on the traits of each character and based off what I know from watching the show myself, I've gathered together here the fonts I'll be using to represent the lines of each character.

Joey - Kingthings Typewriter
I didn't have much reasoning for choosing this font for Joey, but it somehow fits well with his personality of being an actor and being a bit of a ladies man, it's quite a masculine font, traditional of what scripts often looked like.

Chandler - Roose Sally
Chandler is often the comedian of the group, very sarcastic and always cracking jokes, which is why I chose this font. It's very blocky and comic-book-esque and with it being in all capitals, it fits appropriately with how Chandler speaks in the show, as he frequently puts emphasis on things.

Rachel - Fashion Victim
Rachels font was one of the easiest to choose as she has a very distinct character, being known for her good looks and expensive style. This sort of art-deco style font is usually the type you'd find in high-end brands or establishments and is often considered to be very classy.

Phoebe - Handodle
Phoebe's font is also very much reminiscent of her main character trait of being the 'dumb' one of the group. The sketchy aesthetic of this font gives a child-like quality, almost as if you'd find it in school books, attaining to the fact that she's not the most well educated person.
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Monica - Baskerville Old Face
The last font for Monica was also fairly simple to choose. I went with the traditional Baskerville Old Face as it's a familiar, normal font that's wideley used and nothing particularly quirky about it, much like the Character of Monica who is very much normal in comparison to the others. 

Here's just some initial sketches I did of the entire script, trying to find out which lines of text should feature on which pages and which words should have imagery alongside, what kind of angles I could use etc..

SCRIPT 1 Taken from 1990’s sitcom “Friends”

Chandler: Oh, I think this is the episode of Three's Company where there's some kind of misunderstanding. 

Phoebe: Then I've already seen this one! (Turns off the TV.) 

Monica: (taking a drink from Joey) Are you through with that?

Joey: Yeah, sorry, the swallowing slowed me down.

Monica: Whose little ball of paper is this?!

Chandler: Oh, uh, that would be mine. See, I wrote a note to myself, and then I realised I didn't need it, so I balled it up and... (sees that Monica is glaring at him) ...now I wish I was dead.

(Monica starts to fluff a pillow)

Phoebe: She's already fluffed that pillow... Monica, you know, you've already fluffed that - (Monica glares at her.) - but, it's fine!

Monica: Look, I just don't wanna give them any more ammunition than they already have. 

Chandler: Yes, and we all know how cruel a parent can be about the flatness of a child's pillow.

Phoebe: Monica - Hi! Um, Monica, you're scaring me. I mean, you're like, you're like all chaotic and twirly. And not - not in a good way. 

Joey: Yeah, calm down. You don't see Ross getting all chaotic and twirly every time they come.

Monica: That's because as far as my parents are concerned, Ross can do no wrong. Y'see, he's the Prince. Apparently they had some big ceremony before I was born.

Chandler: (looking out the window) Ew, ew, ew, ew ew ew ew ew! 

Monica: What?

Chandler: Ugly Naked Guy got a Thighmaster!

All: Eeaagh!

(Rachel enters from her room.)

Rachel: Has anybody seen my engagement ring?

Phoebe: Yeah, it's beautiful.

Rachel: Oh God, oh God, oh God oh God oh God oh God.... (Starts to look under the couch cushions.)

Phoebe: No, look, don't touch that! 

Monica: Easy Rach, we'll find it. (To all) Won't we!

Chandler and Joey: Oh! Yeah! 

Chosen Script - Friends
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Characters & their traits -
​Joey - Foodie, Actor, Ladies Man
Chandler - Sarcastic, Comedic
Phoebe - Superstitious, dopey, quirky
Monica - Anal-retentive, OCD, stressy
Rachael - Wealthy, Fashion Icon

Information & background of the show -
- Friends is an American sitcom which aired between 1994 & 2004
- The show revolves around six friends aged between their 20s and 30s who live together in downtown New York
- In total, across 10 seasons, there has been 236 episodes
- The show stars actors including; Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry
  & David Schwimmer

After a brief re-arrangement in photoshop, this is the final outcome I've produced for my typeface, which I have decided to call "Sans Organic";

Here I've begun progress on creating my final alphabet outcome. I've stuck to a simple format of both capital and lowercase lettering for each character and then following on from that, also included the numbers 0-9 as well as various common symbols and accents. The font as previously mentioned is entirely in a sans-serif format, very similar to the bold Calibri style.

Following on from looking at other examples and designs of natural form typefaces, I've drawn a few of my own examples below. I have avoided using serif fonts as I prefer the more blocky nature of the sans-serifs when working with imagery and details inside the typeface; it makes things much easier to work with not having to worry about the accents of each stroke as well. Still though, the main one that stands out to me is the first one of the three below and I'm confident in my decision that this is the one to take forward.

Though I'm already quite content on using the font mentioned in the previous post, I've gathered a selection of images below of other people's similar efforts in hopes that they can inspire my own designs as I move forward with my organic/natural form ideas.

Having done a fair amount of research and gathering inspiration, I put my pen to paper to start coming up with my own ideas for a font. Completely at random, I've thought of four examples right here, all very different from one another. The first being an industrial/mechanical based typeface, the second one being a stick-figure typeface, the third taking inspiration from children's building blocks and finally, an organic-inspired typeface - this being my favourite of the lot.

I find the more simple typefaces I've created here (stick figure & building blocks) to be more distracting than the other two for use as an actual font. I think this is because the imagery isn't contained within the lettering itself, as opposed to the others which have a clear outer shape, thus making them more readable and practical. I also like the details in the first and last ones, particularly being drawn in fine-liner you can achieve some nice patterns and shading. Since my favourite of all is the organic-themed one at the bottom, I shall have to research some textures of natural forms and shapes to see what other designs I can achieve if I'm to take this idea forward.

This was not part of the task at all, however after looking at examples of quotes online, I saw a lot of them had been combined with creatively photographed backgrounds, which I wanted to experiment with a little myself. Using the quote from the previous post, I created a series of images based around it using MY OWN personal photographs. Here are the results;

The first one, in keeping with the aforementioned idea of business, structure and perfection almost identically replicates my hand-drawn example, but since I kept that one relatively minimal and monochrome, I wanted to follow through with that here too. This is my favourite of all of them as I think the Serif font and central format of the text being in a 1:1 ratio really just enhances the mood of it.

The second on (in the middle) is a little more street inspired compared to those I've done before, but in keeping with my hand-drawn work beforehand, I used the same idea of bold-facing the words 'dreamed' and 'success' to enhance their presence. I used a standard capitalised Arial type-face in this example and set it against a white square situated further towards the corner, allowing the focal point of the image underneath to sit in the adjacent corner. I did this because I wanted to sort of tell a story as if you were looking out of that window in the photograph at your dreams, which in this case is represented by the dream-like sunrise.

The third one (on the right) is my least favourite of all, mostly because it lacks structure, however I'd seen a similar type of text organisation online and so coupled that to my own image. Much like the previous example, I used a similarly toned sunset shot with a long exposure to capture that dream-like essence of the quote. In a similar fashion yet again, I've also emphasised the words 'dreamed' and 'success', not in block capitals this time, but rather with the use of a larger font and different colours.

Taking away from this experimentation, I may have to explore further with the idea of using text and imagery in conjunction with one another to see if the two can combine to create a type-face or to enhance different words.

The task here was to create several hand-drawn variations of our chosen cheesy quote, mine which I picked out to be "I never dreamed of success, I worked for it." I kept my ideas fairly simple here going off the fact there was very little imagery that would be appropriate alongside the quote.

​The first one (top right) you see I have kept as a basic format, but organised the text in such a way that it forms a perfectly centralised diamond shape. The first thing that came to mind when reading this quote was businessman and so that's what I've gone for here. I've used a simple Serif type-face and block capitals with correct and bold punctuation, all in a black on white theme to keep in check with the idea of perfection and structure you'd be expected to live up to as a businessman, as mentioned previously.

The second example (bottom left) is a bit more quirky and typical of the kind of cringey quotes you often see online. I wanted to combine various type-faces in different sizes to create one vertical block of text. I tried going for a more hand-drawn approach to this one rather than a professional take like the previous one. The free-flowing type-faces I've used tie in quite well with the word 'dreamed', which in this instance I've also put emphasis on by creating that classic dream-cloud shape around it. Then, to fill in the gaps and add a little more structure, I simply broke the text up with some horizontal lines.

The last example is also very simple and somewhat similar to the second one in the fact that I have once again used the word 'dreamed' to help create a shape for the text to sit in, this being the thought bubble surrounding it all. This and the text being in an all caps Sans-Serif font has been largely influenced by the text you'd see in comic books when characters are talking or speaking which gave me the idea to replicate something similar here. Another common thing with that style is making certain words bold to emphasise them, which is exactly what I've done here too, particularly focusing on the words 'dreamed' and 'success' as they are the two main points of this quote.

This task has been very fun to play around with and I've found that hand-writing quotes in different formats is a good way of generating ideas which I might have to take forward and practice more often in the future.

IN this exercise, I challenged myself to find various examples of type in the outdoors on my regular walks. Some are obvious already pre-existing typefaces but the majority I've had to think carefully about to pick out potential lettering in an otherwise abstract form. Some of the textures and elements in these examples are very intriguing and with most of them having some sort of rustic or industrial feel to them, that could possibly be something I pursue further as a theme.

After doing so much research previously, I wanted to get a bit more hands-on and do some drawing myself, so below I've compiled a few examples of what I've done. I've gone a bit more abstract and outside the box for a few of them, while some also remain as existing fonts already. All of these have been hand-drawn in fine-liner.

Using household materials, I have created several examples of creating unconventional fonts from items found around my house.

In the first example on the left, I have gone fairly basic and used scrabble letters to construct the entire alphabet. Although it's not particularly a unique font in itself, the fact that the letters each have their own individual border and score/number makes it quite interesting and creates much more separation between characters.

In the centre example, I have simply used silverware to create an 'ABC'. I actually like this one quite a lot, however the one thing I struggled with was creating curves, so in this instance the hoops of the 'B' and curl of the 'C'. Since silverware is mostly straight forms, curves cannot be made particularly smooth. 

The last example on the right is formed of things I found on my desk, in this case I used a fine-liner, a paintbrush, a rubber, a tube of paint, nail-clippers and a broken CD. It's quite a lazy construction to be honest, however when I was stuck creating the letter 'C' I decided to cut the CD up to get that nice curl, and after doing so, I realised I could also use the smaller piece I'd cut out to form the lower portion of the letter 'B', which in actuality fits perfectly, especially with it's straight bottom edge. The rainbow reflection the CD gives off is also quite a nice touch and I think creating an entire font from this method and material may be a very quirky and modern example. It almost reminds me of the Bauhaus font in a way.

Here I've compiled a selection of 8 of my favourite ampersands fonts where I have elaborated further as to why I like them so much and how they differentiate from one another. All the images below are sourced from;
​​https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/my-top-30-fonts-with-the-sexiest-ampersands

​Caslon No 337 Italic - I like this font for its intricate and extravagant details. It reminds me of the type of classic calligraphy that you'd see from old publications .

Peria - The Peria font is very similar in design to the previous Caslon font but with a slightly more modern twist and less of the calligraphy aesthetic as it's much more bold. It almost looks like a backwards 3 intertwined with the letter 's'.

Bodoni Bold Italic - I like this font as it's very simple and rather similar to the likes of the standard Times New Roman, however the the little flick at the end of the line adds a touch more class and makes it slightly more suited to the Italic orientation in my opinion.

Chino Display - I like this one purely because of the slightly more abstract nature. It's a much less formal font and I'd personally associate it more with a younger audience The sheer boldness of this font makes it stand out from most others too.

Clarendon - Again, this is a rather simple font, not much different to what you'd find in standard texts. For some reason I look at this style and instantly associate it with posters or propaganda, which is why I like it because it feels some what historic and nostalgic. 

Campton - Now this font I like a lot. It is much more geometric than any others I've seen with its particularly sharp edges. It's evidently a more modern style and if I was to state a place for it I can imagine it would feature in the likes of businesses or logos as it appears quite professional.

Avia - Avia is one of the few fonts I've come across where there are no connecting lines between parts of the font. It's quirky and I rather like that about it as you almost have to fill in the blanks yourself.

Manhattan - This last font is undoubtedly my favourite of all. One of my favourite styles of art and architecture was the art deco period of the 1920's and this Manhattan font perfectly reflects that era. It's very clean cut and abstract, making it potentially difficult to read, however of all the fonts this is probably the most artistic and recognisable. It's not so much of an everyday font anymore, but rather used as a statement or representation.

The task here was to produce three versions of my own ampersands fonts, with the given font choices being Baskerville Bold, Garamond Bold Itallic, Bauhaus and Futura. I had to produce versions of these fonts using the themes provided, which were as follows; the park/garden, pets, winter wear, bathroom, technology, my street, afternoon tea, childhood and christmas. Instead of three designs, I created 5, some which look better than other, my particular favourites being the Garamond Winter Wear one and the Bauhaus Garden theme. The Christmas one is just too messy in my opinion, with the Bauhaus technology themed font in the top left also being similarly cluttered, making it difficult to identify the actual symbol.

Now please visit https://www.creativebloq.com/typography/commandments-11410425
And read the whole article as your final activity. Add this link to your blog/website and summarise the article in a few sentences..

Instead of summarising the article, I have created some key points that I've taken from it using bullet-points;

- Don't overuse script fonts, particularly in large doses as it is often hard to read and unappealing.
- Don't place type over a busy background as it is often too distracting and hard to read.
- Don't use too many fonts in one place, i.e. a website or publication as it's often very confusing and distracting.
- Don't fake small caps as it is ugly and unattractive. Instead, find a font that actually uses small caps.
- Don't use fake Italics, i.e. slanted type. Instead, choose a font that actually has an Italic case.
- Don't use all caps; it is ugly and hard to read, and also associated with shouting. Lower caps is much easier on the eye.
- Don't reverse/invert type. Type should always be black and set against a lighter backdrop. It causes less strain on eyes.
- Don't combine serifs, i.e. serif and sans serif as it creates unbalance and doesn't flow as well.
- Don't use too long or too short measures (how long each line of text is). It prevents the reader from having to fight to      construct the sentences themselves.