Once I had chosen my type specimen, I decided to start sketching the letterforms to understand them better. Without paying much attention to the measurements, my focus was on the optical representation. After sketching one letterform, I tried making other letterforms.

For my reference, I used 'Designing Type' by Karen Cheng during this project. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in Type Design. It talks about the rules of designing type, and how to design other letterforms.

Trying to construct the letterform using a grid instead of visually sketching it.

Constructing B and P, by visually using R as an example. It was roughly sketched without using any grid or mathematical values.

In progress photos and the errors that kept occuring. According to the book, the bowl of P should be between the two bowls of B. Similarly for R, however, it is slightly smaller than P to make it appear less dense (because of the oblique)

How the three letterforms would look if interlaced on top of each other. This was to understand their relative sizes.