Typeface WIP: ’Thopter
Hi fellow dribbbosaurs,
Here’s a more personal/self-initiated jam. Me and my girlfriend have been re-reading Dune. It’s great. And I recently discovered that some of the old paperbacks have some great groovy nerdy sci-fi type. These letters are based on one of those covers.
There is already an actual typeface from the 60s or 70s that was used — something from PhotoLettering — but 1, I’m not sure if a digitization exists, and 2, I thought it would be fun to purposely avoid seeking it out, and to only use the D, U, N, and E as direction for my own thing.
I’m not sure if or when this will ever see completion — these are just a few glyphs in an illustrator file — a far cry from an honest-to-god usable typeface. But maybe one day.
Hope you’re swell.