Watermelon — Latin Typography Study
A custom bespoke alphabet built from a single fruit concept
University coursework — typeface design exercise
Overview
"Watermelon is a large, sweet summer fruit with a hard green rind and juicy, typically red or pink flesh filled with black seeds." That single sentence became the design brief for a full Latin alphabet, A through Z, built entirely from the fruit's shape, rind pattern and seeds.
Design concept
Each letterform keeps the rounded rind silhouette and the same recurring anatomy: an ascender stem, an x-height stem, round elements, a top serif and a foot serif — so every character in the set stays consistent while still reading clearly as its own letter.
Letterform anatomy
Ascender stem
X-height stem
Round elements
Top serif
Foot serif
