No sketches this time, none worth sharing, anyway. (I did a small thumbnail sketch while taking notes.) It took some time to sort how to get to where I wanted to go with this, and a bit more time to get there. And then a bit more time to clean up the photo, which had seen a bit of wear over the past, I don't know — eighty, ninety years, however long it's been.(You know, I hadn't really thought about just how old this photo must be before now.)
My idea was that we remember these girls as young and innocent (perhaps a bit naughty, hence the photo), in contrast to their rather miserable fates — so the cover is light and feminine. And yes, it's pink.
I've wanted to find a use for this typeface forever — it's based on a hand-lettered specimen made using a Speedball pen.
I used to have a few of these pens, ages ago (I was surprised to discover you can still buy them), and a booklet with several beautiful hand-lettered samples. (I probably still have it, somewhere, packed away in a box.)
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