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This link will teleport you to a magical site where in which you can design your own font, simply by connecting shapes together like puzzle pieces. Surprisingly it was more mathematical than I thought, for each letter you have to build your shape tiles from the origin (bottom left corner) and problem solve how the angles of the shapes will smoothly slot into each other, to form a letter.
Importantly you have to consider how you'd like your typeface to look, maybe think about a theme, how it relates to the content of your type and mostly try constructing a pattern within your typeface so that it looks relatively consistent and moreover accessible for anyone that reads it.

I'm not going to tell you what it says, I'll leave you to crack the code Sherlock!
In terms of creating a word I had to tackle each letter separately, each letter would be a pathway that leads on to the next because when one reads it becomes a journey into a labyrinth, when finding your way out is recognising the word.

Automatically most people look at the word  'zoomed out' and make the common mistake of misinterpreting information and reading the word wrong. A top tip for anyone is to digest the word chunk by chunk, acknowledge where each letter starts and ends. Passageways of negative space might be used as a barrier, but examine closely because sometimes the division between each letter isn't always so clear. Sometimes there isn't a space at all. If it's easier pretend your finger is a pen and follow the lines and shapes, as you are experiencing the movements you are connecting this with the conventional visual representation of letters.

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To create my letters I liked using the diagonal oblongs, partnered with the version in the inverted monochrome as it produced an energetic youthful and rebellious attitude to its content. By alternating the inverted monochrome it started to develop angular planes within the letter structures, indicating how the influence of light can alter our perception of dimension. The 3D structures also give the impression that the typeface contains a laddered framework of steps and stools, for climbing unreachable heights.

The patterning of the alternating monochrome tiles seems like a variation of the racer chequered flag and the diagonal oblongs effectively portray a swishing motion of the waving flag, a gesture that is performed quickly to mark when something has ended. When an action happens quickly, you then think about the duration of time it happened in, usually when something is quick it doesn't last very long.