Font Poem

This font poem uses my version of a quote from poet William Blake. I changed his word “mirth” to laughter because I could relate to it better and thought it would be easier for people to understand. I love this quote for two reasons. I like the way it sounds, with the repetition of words. I also agree with what Blake is saying. I love to laugh, have fun, and of course, be happy. I translate this quote to mean that both fun leads to laughter, and laughter leads to happiness. In my opinion, someone’s cannot be happy without being able to let loose, have fun, and enjoy life.

The three main words I wanted to focus on in this font poem are laughter, fun, and happiness. I tried to make these three words stand out amongst the others, and catch the viewer’s attention off the bat. I also positioned the words a certain way for a reason. Since the quote is so repetitive, I wanted the similar words to have a mirror effect on each other. That is why I aligned it so that the two laughter’s are in similar positions, as well as better and some of the smaller words.

The word laughter is designed to contain some humor. I used a font called giddy up std make it look different from the other words. I also wanted it to jump off the page, so I applied yellow cover overlay to the hot pink font color. These are both very vibrant colors that stand out and combine with the font to make it look unique.

For the word better I used Copperplate Gothic Bold to make it look powerful. Better is a very strong word, and the red text with an outer glow effect seems to give it that powerful feel.

When photo shopping the word fun I decided to have fun with it. I played with many different effects and texts until I found the right one. I used Marker Felt text to make it look immature. Then I used a Nebula Texture style to give it the combination of colors inside the letters. I added a hot pink outer glow to make it stand out against the black background. I like the way it turned out and think it looks wild and fun.

In my opinion, happiness is the most important word in the font poem. I wanted this to be the word that stood out most on the page, so I used a cursive font instead of print like all the others. The font is called Zapfino and is much different from the other fonts that are all print. I think the font makes it looks fancier compared to all the other simpler fonts. It also has an outer glow and is paired with a light yellow font color. It makes the word jump off the page against the black background. It glows against the black background and is the first thing I notice while looking at the poem.

There are a few other words in the font poem that were not as important as laughter, fun, happiness, or even better. For these words, I used darker colors and applied no effects. I did not want the simpler words to take away form any of the bigger words. The word is appears twice in the font poems, and is green with Nueva std as a font. I have it tilting to the side and close up to the word that it is paired with. Than is a dark purple is in a simple myriad pro font. There is no effect and is placed under better to the right both times. Instead of using the word and I used the symbol & to conserve space. I also think it looks better with the other words, and fits perfectly next to fun and happiness. It is also dark purple to help balance and match the than’s.

I arranged the words so that laughter and better are on the same side of the page, aligned up with each other. I put fun and happiness together onb the right so that they are close and right on top of each other.

I like this quote, and think that the effects and fonts that I added to the words really bring it to life. I made each word unique, trying the bring out the qualities of each word to the screen.