A digital typeface inspired by the animals of the deep blue seas and oceans.
Tentacular is a creative Display Typeface inspired by creatures of the deep blue sea and other and organic objects. Each letter and symbol varies in shape and size, making every type edge look slightly like a tentacle.
Type Drafting Every single letter, number and symbol was drawn and drafted with a unique appearance, and the goal was to make all the type specimens have a rounded edge. The most unique letters of this typeface are the letters "K, V, J, O, A" along with the numbers and symbols "1, 2, 8, 9, # $, @, {, }, and more.
Ligatures & Styles This font style is playful and creative, it's primary use is for display type; however, it can be used for paragraphs like all other type specimens. The rounded edges of this font are created to look slightly like tentacles to accentuate the playful look it has.
Font Preparation The most important task in creating this font was aligning each and every type specimen with one another, giving proper line-height, letter-spacing, and most importantly font-weight to every element.
These are some of the special letters, numbers, and symbols in the Tentacular font library. Each ligature element looks slightly like a tentacle to express the font's name.
From lowercase letters to symbols and special characters, each element of the Tentacular typeface was draw by hand to give a very custom feel to the font.
The role in this project involved drafting font type specimens and vectorizing each and every element. Afterwards, these elements were turned into a usable font. This project was completed on August 10'th, 2012 and was updated on October 5’th, 2016.
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