What Type of a person are you?

Once every week a bunch of bright sparks at Fusion huddle together to share what inspires them.

So what inspires us? When it comes to inspiration we all get inspired by different things or at times same thing but in different ways. Our inspiration is also reflection of our subconscious and our motivation.

In our last huddle, James Diato, Red River College student who was here for work placement shared his portfolio. Most of his work was very typographical or maybe that’s what my subconscious got attracted towards the most in his portfolio. But that certainly inspired me to do a little fun exercise based on Type (Character, Font, Typeface).

People have personalities and so do Typefaces. If that’s the case, then people must have typefaces unique to their personalities. What typeface comes to your mind when you read the word “Walt Disney”? Now what typeface comes to your mind when you think of the word “Army”? No revelation there! Most of you probably already know this.

It becomes particularly interesting when you try to associate a typeface to the people you know!
So my little exercise was about that. Associating typeface with the people I work with, daily. I doodled the very first impression that came to my mind when I think of a name of a colleague. I didn’t want to over think so I gave myself 10 minutes to finish all the sketches.
I have used basic fonts and added some accents by manipulating a character along with colour to illustrate my first impression of a name. It’s interesting to see that my inspiration for different people came from a variety of things. For some the first impression was the personality, for some their style, some their role, their skill for something, for some an earring and for some it was a mix of different things they are into.
Disclaimer: This is just my personal impression and not meant to judge or offend anyone. Any resemblance to your character, clothes, colour, class, creed or cat is purely coincidental.

Have fun and take it easy!