After deciding I wanted to create a type by hand out of physical objects, I then sat down to think up some ideas. I came up with a few ideas for objects I could use including feathers, pencils, paper clips, paper shreds or leaves. I decided to go with paper clips and had a go at attaching several together and shaping them into letters. This is what I got:
With this I decided it was too basic and therefore I transferred the images to Photoshop to turn them into letters for fonts.
I did this by removing the background of the images, leaving the paper clips, with the background eraser tool. This made them look a lot more appealing and it allowed them to stand out. This is the result:
I think in order to appreciate the style of this type I will need to create the whole alphabet but editing them has made a good difference. I will be editing them further to perfect them (the editing is patchy and needs sorting) and I also want to play around to see what changes I can make to them.