Alphabet Soup Part 1 Continued...

Whilst I'm fine with working with pre existing type faces, in fact, it's great because I don't think that typography and creating them from scratch would be on my list of strengths, the choice out there is overwhelming.
Do I stick to simple fonts so that I can focus on working more with inventive ways of adapting and displaying it?

Bebas Neue, Helvetica and Myriad Pro are the most obvious fonts in terms of simple choices in Graphic Design, and I like the fact that they are all clean cut and legible, so that there are more ways to play with the meanings of dissolve within it, because whatever I do, it would still be relatively simple to read.


Or do I go for more fancy fonts that would visually give the work more contrast, and try to experiment with the word dissolved in that way?

So far these are the fonts I have been mainly working from to develop, and whilst they aren't the most complex of typefaces, I still feel like they are a little more difficult to work with, because I need the typeface and the adaptation of it to work and complement it.

Some designs I did yesterday developed these fonts.

These were some ideas done using Myriad Pro, but in lower caps, because I wanted there to be some variation in my final designs. I also tried to experiment with what I thought would be the most interesting letters to use because of their shape and how they looked within the alphabet.

In these ones I tried to play with the idea of the letter fading and disappearing. The ones I feel were most successful were the the n and m from the lower image, because the thickness of line shows the fade in an effective and simple manner. 

I also like the K's I designed, where I used the definition for dissolve as to break up and disintegrate. I would like to develop more that explore this. 

Other designs I did used Bebas Neue, which I think worked well. 

 

With these ideas I tried to work more with spacing and the possibilities for the font within the frame. I also looked at some more obvious designs, such as the K which I designed to look like liquid, although I think it maybe looks more like slime. 

I think the K's that seem to leaving the frame work well, as does the N that has separated, because they are not obviously associated with dissolving, and they do create more interest because they aren't using the central space like all my other designs so far. 

Another successful one (I feel) that is very subtle is the use of line on the N in the first of these images. The fact that one side is joined together, whilst the other side is beginning to break apart creates contrast and displays the meaning.