Font Poem

For our second project, we had to make a font poem, using Photoshop. This project helped me learn how to use layers (since we eventually had to animate the poem). For my text, I chose an excerpt from the poem "A Love Story" by William Carlos Williams. I chose this because I found the language very descriptive and beautiful, so I wanted to compliment that with visuals.

At first, I just wrote out the whole text in one layer, in one text box, which ended up not being very beneficial to what I decided I wanted to do with the poem. I ended up re-doing this poem about 3+ times, first just creating one new layer to stretch the word WEIGHT, then I decided that each word or line I wanted to animate should be a separate layer. Therefore I did the project over a third time. I am fairly happy with the outcome, even though it really is all about type face and not shape of the poem. I tried that out at first but then felt that the poem was too beautiful to have any more unnecessary distractions.

The fonts I used were:

Abadi MT Condensed Light
OCR A Std
Koch Antiqua LT Std
ITC Ozwald Std
ITC Isadora Std
Hobo Std
Pepperwood Std
Organica GMM Std
Magnolia MVB Std
Klang MT Std
Cascade Script LT Std