Zombie Drop Cap Exercise

The Zombie Drop Cap Exercise was originally a project I did for my Advanced Typography class, but I turned it into a spin-off, personal project to practice my Photoshop skills and experiment with typography. For the exercise itself, I was tasked with taking a letter from a typeface out of an old typographic book and breathe new life into by turning it into a drop cap, hence the "zombie" part of the project. I chose to modify the "H" letter from the typeface Lining Modern Antique No.2, which I found in the American Specimen Book of Type Styles.
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Typography Drop Caps

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A page of information that reads as follows: Typeface Characteristics 1 The Appeal: This typeface drew me in due to its bold contrast and interesting serifs. I like the sharpness and the bold strokes to it. It reminds me of the art deco movement, which was happening around the era that it was published. 2 The Classification: According to the American Type Founders Company, this typeface falls under the display type category (American, 2007). Slab serifs were once labeled as display typefaces, however, so it may fall under that category as well (Kueng, 2020). 3 The History: This typeface was used in printed newspapers and journals throughout the early 1910s, and while the book gives no individual credit for this typeface, it clearly was designed by the typographic artists at the American Type Founder in Jersey City, New Jersey (American, 2007). The American Type Founders was a massive merger of 23 different foundries at the time, so even though we know where it came from, it is difficult to know who exactly deserves the credit for this specific typeface (Shaw, 2011). Typeface foundries at the time were experimenting with new and more sophisticated machinery, which made existing typefaces like slab serifs and sans serif more easy to produce. This new efficiency, and the fact that these typefaces were better suited to newsprint, caused a surge in popularity with these typefaces (Petroussenko, 2019).

Process Book Exert

This is from the process book that I made for this project. The section is dedicated to going over the history and sources that I got my typography from.
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Offical Vector

Because this exercise was part of a different project, I only submitted one vector, the bottom right, for the credit, but I made these other vectors as well.
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