For this brief I chose to make a typeface out of coffee beans.
I traced a coffee bean on illustrator and filled it in block colour. I chose to make this as simple as possible as my pages are only A6 size meaning that detailed illustrations would not be seen.
I repeated the shape multiple times to create a page of coffee beans.
Using the clipping mask tool I masked the beans to a letter which created this effect. I like this but I do think it needs to have more beans inside it. I tried to overlap the images together to look authentic but i found that the beans simply merged together meaning it was impossible to identify what the letter was made up of.
Finished UpperCase typeface
I chose to add some glyphs to my finished typeface to make it more professional and also to try my beans out in different shapes rather than letters.
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