I have been meaning to post these photos for a little while so that people could get a better sense of the depth of sugar for my July 16 artwork.

The font Cutiful seemed ideal for the job of conveying anything saccharine. I wanted to buy it for a separate project anyway, so I purchased it that night (god bless instant downloads). I then set sweet sixteen in the type, but felt that it wasn’t showing off the great descenders in the font. Things started clicking in my brain between a few different ideas I had tinkered with earlier, and I went to work stenciling letters and applying sugar. I think I will play some more with this technique so long as my wife doesn’t use all the sugar for her jams. I may have to move over to flocking shirts if that happens!

Cutiful itself is pretty well balanced and useful, especially all lowercase. My only major quibble with the design is with the lowercase r. It seems to have a poorly balanced curve at the top-most arc that creates a little deflation zone at large sizes.

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