Constellations are the source of a Font's Elation!

Stella is a font designed for the Uwe graphic design course using the brief/prompt analogue. My response to this brief was to create a typeface inspired by constellations and how seeing stars isn’t something that can be replicated digitally as it is natural and scenic

As a first year graphic design student at UWE this is my first attempt at creating a typeface on Fontstruct based around the theme of ‘hope’. Looking at this theme I explored the words; dream, desires and wishing leading me to the classic phrase, ‘when you wish upon a star’ and have therefore, based my typeface on stars. Through research, I looked at the patterns and layouts of star constellations to find that they are only made up of straight lines and circles, which is why I have formed a simple lettering using only these two basic forms, incorporating the concept of star constellations.