Week 23: Squiggees

Dingbats!!!

TGIF babyyyyy!! 

Apparently I really needed a palette cleanser after making a blackletter last week! I don’t know why I love them so much, but dingbats are the best. Maybe I’m done with actual letters??? Jk never… but maybe?

Inspired by proof doc markups and all the fun doodles added on notes and to-do lists.

Doodly dingbats have been on the list for nearly a millennia at this point. I always thought it would be really fun to add a “hand written” tool to my arsenal. When designing these, I made sure to include multiple size options for each kind of doodle. No dinky doodles here. In terms of my process, I sketched these with my Wacom tablet using the pencil tool in illustrator. I then moved the path over to glyphs. It’s easier for me to edit the paths in Glyphs now so I refined them and resized there. Then added a stroke so they would all be uniform. I am sure I could’ve used the pencil tool in Glyphs but I felt like it was helpful to see them all on one artboard.

Pieces and Squiggees living in harmony <3

In the end, there are 52 little doodle shapes for you to use at your leisure. When a design is feeling a little flat or stale, adding these would definitely help! I picture these being used to jazz up boring IG posts, make fake cosmo quizzes, designing a fun powerpoint for once, and maybe to add to a resume for a grade school teacher?? Regardless, I hope you have as much fun using them as I had making them. Thanks for being supportive of my reckless dingbat ways!! 

This pattern was made using A,C, and h. :)

Some tips for using Squiggees:

• Open the glyphs palette to see the whole characterset at once and pick the shapes you want to use

• Pick a handful of characters that pair well together and repeat them randomly to make an interesting pattern! 

• Use the shapes on their own to add a little decoration to your work

• Refer to the included reference PNG to match the shape to the character

5 things I’m into this week:

1. TypeWknd is happening now and continuing all weekend! Find the schedule here: https://2021.typewknd.com/

2. Type Supply’s new R&D Department for in progress fonts. I might do something similar after I wrap up this project… 🤔

3. This week was made possible by my Wacom Tablet. Idk why I don’t use it more but I might have to start! Does anyone here use a Wacom instead of a mouse??

4. Don’t judge but I burned straight through the first season of Real Housewives: SLC. I discovered that I might like reality tv???

5. I’m on a knitting tear lately!! I don’t want to brag but I finished a beaded sweater recently and have been wearing it nonstop.

See you next week!!

Libbie