Sloppy Notes

Visual anatomy & craft review

Letterform structure
of Sloppy Notes.

The word is set as one large lowercase block and the face is a chunky display with a melty quality: the strokes are very thick, the letters sag and swell, the counters close into small holes, and the letters fuse where they touch, so the word reads as a single soft mass rather than a row of shapes. That fusion is what gives the face its sloppy, melted look, and it only works at a large size where the joins can be seen. A heavy dark outline holds the block together and separates it from the red ground, and the baseline sags in the middle. Above the block a row of circled doodle faces is drawn in the same dark ink, and two small lines beneath name the face and describe it. The palette is cream, red and a dark brown. Sloppy Notes is a display face for posters, packaging, apparel and social graphics, and it needs a short word at a large size and a plain ground.

Melty, chunky, modern