Typeface Poster set

For this project I worked on creating 2 cohesive posters based on 2 separate typefaces and their creators. The two typefaces that I used were Bembo and Rockwell. Bembo was a very old typeface created for a single book about a man’s trip to Mount Etna. I found a correlation between my 2 typefaces here and this was the main jumping off point for how I was going to make these two work as a set. The correlation that I saw between the Rockwell slab serif and Bembo was that Bembo was used to write about a mountain and Rockwell’s serifs are slabs like slabs of rock. I used this to make a couple different variations of rocks used to tie in with Bembo’s mountain before finally going with the posters seen. With Bembo, my main struggle was limiting myself to only three colors and still having the information be both legible and readable. I also was not able to find the typeface anywhere for free from a reliable website so I had to find a very similar one, I ended up going with Cochin Bold. This was difficult because of the limited contrast I have in this poster. In comparison, the Rockwell poster has a good amount of contrast but still works as a set with the Bembo poster.