You can’t always get what you want
These are the final cover designs for my Typography class booklet. We were given a typeface at random and had to produce a type chart and a cover, I was really hoping for Futura but got Palatino instead. You can’t always get what you want, I suppose.
I still used both for the covers – one and two ink variations:
Of course I ended up loving Palatino more than I thought possible and started to appreciate its own quirkiness and calligraphic details. I developed an alphabet around them both, Futura vs Palatino or even Want vs Have. I want to screen print a poster with it but for the time being here’s A and g:
