Peanese
This exercise was an experimental typography project with emphasis on understanding how type and characters evolved from pictograms. The experimentation began with a selection of a series of images and in turn simplifying them into pictograms. My own selection and simplification was based on choosing 12 characters from the Peanut series.
From the pictograms further development was explored to further simplify the pictograms into glyphs which in turn serves as the base of an alternative style of type. My concluding project resulted in combining my pictograms and glyphs into a mixture of references brought over from Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
After the base 12 characters, a further 14 characters were produced to replace the English alphabet system, hence having a different representation of characters for a new language and character representation. This resulted in the final outcome where the name was this project was created. Mixing Peanut Characters with Chinese which equals Peanese. The type was further developed from its skeleton to look like a Chinese Script, the resulting typeface was later named,
"Old Charlie Script".
