Typography

I began firstly by researching fonts and font styles that occupy popular children’s books. I went to libraries for research on this and done a lot of online research for it also. There is a lot of websites made available to people today which offer some wonderful and free fonts. After I researched, it really came down to narrowing down the styles I want.

I gathered the very helpful knowledge that most children learn to read by going letter by letter until they are able to make sense of an entire word. Therefore, it is important to choose a typeface with well-defined contours and generous space between letters, which gives them a safe and inviting feeling.

I proceeded then to download each of the fonts to my laptop and assemble them on a document using Adobe Illustrator. I found it more ideal to see them together first to make comparisons.

I then narrowed down the ones I liked after inputting them into my prototype and selecting four possible fonts.