Creating Front Cover Font

After doing more research on the context of the short story, the 'The Greatest Man in the World' was written in 1945. I decided that using a font, relating to this time would represent the pragmatics and context of the story. Fonts such as 'Petroglyph' and 'Dusty Rose' represent the time period but didn't show the personality of the character 'Jack Pal'. I decided to combine the structure of the 1940s fonts, but give them a rough and scruffy personality, symbolising the era and characters in the book.

Font inspired by 1940s font, and using biro, given a rough edge. 

Work in Progress screenshots of arranging font into text on cover.

Final arrangement of text on cover. The text is central, allowing the men to be placed around the text. The 'est' on Greatest is out of line, which could symbolise the behaviour and character of 'Jack' or the accent or decent of the monoplane. I believe this font conveys the time period of the story, and also foreshadows the unusual characters in the story, shown by the rough typography.