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Designed a minimal and elegant wedding invitation for my friend’s Muslim wedding 🤍✨ Using soft, light tones and refined typography to create a graceful, timeless feel while keeping the design simple and sophisticated.
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Safe or bold, which one actually makes you stop scrolling? 🤔
Sans: the serif, tight tracking, one accent color playbook every skincare brand is running right now.
Bold: the same idea, redesigned with attitude. 💅
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Definitely bold! That redesigned typography adds so much personality and immediately stops the scroll. Safe just gets lost in the feed these days.
apparently in 1994, David Carson was art directing an issue of Ray Gun magazine. he found one of the interviews he was designing for (with Bryan Ferry) so boring, that he typeset the entire thing in Zapf Dingbats.
if you're not familiar, Zapf Dingbats is an iconographic font with no legible letters.
one of my favourite quotes is from Carson, about this piece: "Don't mistake legibility for communication."
drop your favourite bit of font lore in the comments 👇
Source: David Carson: Surfing the Unconventional Waves of Zapf's Dingbats
So amazing 😍
Why do half the skincare and fashion brands launching this year look like they share the same designer?
Serif logotype, tight tracking, one accent color. ✅ It reads as elevated the first time. By the twentieth brand, it reads as a template, not a decision.
Safe typography isn't neutral, it's a choice too, sometimes one that avoids taking a position 🤭.
So I designed a set of mockups with custom letterforms built to argue the opposite: type with weight, texture, and enough attitude to hold its ground on a shelf full of quiet logos. 💅
What's the last fashion or skincare brand whose type actually made you stop scrolling?
That cap, texture and typography fits very well together. This really is different, yet safe. Good work!