Introducing: Monster Mash Typeface

To make this font I used a template from the website Calligraphr and put it into Adobe Illustrator. I then filled in each box with a letter from a different font called Love*Monster, next I traced each letter giving it a slightly different style to the original. For this font, with Halloween coming up soon, I wanted to make something silly and spooky so I decided to draw each letter as a monster or Fall/Halloween related item. The uppercase letters were the easiest, but as I started getting to the lowercase it became harder and harder to come up with ideas, thankfully it is all done. I used tools such as the pen tool, paintbrush/blob brush tools, eraser, selection tools, shape creator tools, puppet warp tool, smooth tool, and type tool. After filling it out, I uploaded the template to Calligraphr, unfortunately the website could not register the many little details that were present in the drawings and often cut of parts of the letters that were still inside their dedicated boxes. It took a while but after fixing my template file I was able to upload the font without parts being cut off even if the quality was much lower. After looking through the font, I downloaded the file for it and found out that after Calligraphr had pixilated my font, it had then turned the letters into vectors (this made some parts of the font look even more different). After this long process I finally had my own working font! This was a great assignment and a wonderful learning experience, to anyone planing to make a font using Calligraphr the only thing I would recommend is that you should not add many little details to your font and be warned of the 75 character limit per font (for the free version). I would love to have been able to make a font large enough to have contained all the characters and symbols on a standard keyboard, but I am still very satisfied with the outcome.