Font Poem

For the font poem project, I chose the first line of the Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows." The Beatles are a very,very important part of my life so there was no doubt in my mind from the beginning that I would use them for the project. I chose this particular lyric because I could choose fonts that conveyed a feeling based on the words used. That was a big part of what I wanted to achieve with this project.

The font decisions I made were based on the word. I put a curve setting on the word "turn" to convey the motion of turning. The word "mind" I used a creative font like Comic Sans and "relax" I used a smooth, hand written font and I made the same decision with the word "stream." The word "float" I used a bubbley font to convey the image of water, and the word "down" I decreased the font size as the word came to and end to give them feeling of a decline. Unimportant words like "and" and "your" I used fairly simple fonts.

The most challenging part of the project was finding fonts I was satisfied with and picking a size. To solve this problem, I just experimented. Some words at first I got a little too crazy with the size so I would have to edit that a lot. Also, the segment, "float down stream" I had to play with the positioning of to make it more pleasing to the eye.

The part of the project that I am most proud of is choosing fonts that did a play on the word's meanings. I am glad I thought a head to pick a lyric that I was able to do that with. It gives the project more depth. If I had more time I would have played around with effects more like I did on the word "turn" and just experimented more in general. There is never enough time.